Lions Quest to the Super Bowl (Hour 3)

Our number three of our radio program, that's right, it is the Zach Gelb show. On the Infinity Sports Network, the Detroit Lions had their best game of the season last night, taking down the Seattle Seahawks 42 to 29. Probably not the most impressive opponent that they defeated. I would still say that's the Rams, even though the Seahawks are off to a better start this year than the Rams are, but the Rams have been decimated by injuries and the Lions, they beat the Rams in week one, but I thought that was the best performance I've seen so far by the Detroit Lions. And I know the scoring got a little out of hand at the end, so it didn't make it look like it was that good of a defensive performance as it was at times for the Lions, but this is how the Lions are kind of built. And I know, right, everyone reads the stats and they look at Jared Goff and they're like, oh, he was 18 of 18 for two touchdowns and 292 yards and also had the receiving touchdown. But it's clear how the Lions are trying to win. They're trying to win based off Jameer Gibbs and David Montgomery just pounding you and just finding a way to run the ball for the majority of the game. And they're going to be moments where the passing game is on display because of who you have at wide receiver, Damon Ross, St. Brown, the speed of Jamison Williams, and also one of the better tight ends in the league and Sam Laporta.

But you take a glance at the way that the Lions approach things. It's not really to have Jared Goff go throw the ball 40 times a game. What they're saying right now to Jared Goff, hey, we're going to basically ask you to be a game manager. And I know last night, right, you're going to say, oh, that wasn't a game manager performance.

And it wasn't. But they also only had him throw the ball 18 times. It's just weird to say he's a game manager when he was 18 of 18 for 292 yards and two touchdowns. Like when you think game manager, you think like, OK, like 18 for like 27, there's an interception in there somewhere, but it doesn't kill you.

You get two touchdowns, you have like 180 passing yards. But you look at the way that they've won this year. You know, 28 passing attempts, 18 to 28 against the Rams. And that game was an overtime. The game they lost, they didn't throw the ball 55 times. Then against the Cardinals last week, 18 to 23. And then this week they only had him throw the ball 18 times and he completed all 18, which Dan Campbell, by the way, didn't know after the game. It was a great moment. He's talking to the media and he goes, oh, I just gave the game ball to somebody else.

I didn't realize he was perfect. Which, Manny, that's kind of crazy to me. Where I understand it, it's not as like it's a perfect game in Major League Baseball when you know what's going on. You know how many times around that he threw it, but you would have just figured, OK, naturally, oh, there would have been incompletion in the game.

How the head coach of the Detroit Lions wasn't able to put it together before he got to the podium or someone didn't tell him, hey, coach, by the way, your quarterback didn't have an incompletion. It's almost something I can't even believe, Manny. Yeah, I mean, it almost it does sound like impossible.

Yeah, 18 for 18. It's not. He didn't go 30 for 30, whatever. But, you know, it's still a 100 percent passing completions. And the fact that he didn't know, you couldn't tell me. You mean to tell me a PR person couldn't go didn't go up to. That's what I'm saying.

Hey, hey, they might ask you about Jared. I don't know if you know, but 18 for 18. And also a perfect quarterback rating is one hundred and fifty eight point three.

I think it is. He was one hundred and fifty five point eight. Now, I'm not good with numbers.

Oh, neither am I. I don't understand what is the algorithm or what's the formula here on how this is constructed. But how do you complete every one of your passes? You have two touchdowns and two hundred and ninety two yards. And how do you have a perfect quarterback rating? That I don't understand.

I really don't understand. So I look at the Lions last night. I don't even think the Lions have played their best brand of football yet. And you look at the NFC. The NFC, I thought, had a chance to take that next step this year where you're trying to close the gap from the AFC to the NFC. But also, it's like you look at the AFC. The Chiefs aren't playing great.

They're undefeated. Outside of that, like, who do you really love in the AFC? You know, the Texans are good. I think the Bills, even though they're going to be without Von Miller now for four games because of a suspension. And also, they just got embarrassed by the Ravens. I still think the Bills are good. And the Ravens would be my pick to get out of the AFC North.

They're going to be tough. But the Ravens dominated teams last year in the postseason. They choked. So I look at the AFC. The AFC has a great team that's vulnerable. But outside of that, you have a lot of other people vying to try to take down the Chiefs. But in the NFC, I'm waiting for someone to just grab on to this conference. And the Seahawks last night, they had a good 3-0 start. They finally played a legitimate opponent because the Broncos, the Patriots, and the Dolphins aren't that.

And they weren't going to win the game. Like I said on the air yesterday, I saw that line was four and a half. Trust me. You lose a lot more than you win in gambling. But the moment I saw that line was four and a half and I read it on the air, I'm like, let me go into my account.

Alrighty. I'm going to put money on the Detroit Lions. It ends up winning, laying the four and a half points. So the Seahawks aren't a Super Bowl team. And you know, the Cardinals and Rams, I thought the Rams could be if they're healthy, but they're one and three and they're banged up. The Niners, you got an injury now with Christian McCaffrey, where he's going to Germany to figure out what's going on with his Achilles. And he's got Achilles tendinitis now on both legs.

Like what? That doesn't sound good. And I don't know about you, Manny. When I hear this injury with Christian McCaffrey and his days go on, he'll come back and play. But I don't think he's going to last all that long on a football field.

It's sad. But when you hear about Achilles tendinitis right now going on in both legs, how do I think he's going to get through a season? You're just meaning the season though, right? Oh, I think we'll come back and play next year.

I'm just talking about, to be clear, just this year. I think he's going to play and he's going to get hurt. And if he comes back, he can't tell me that he's going to do anything spectacular. Calf injuries, Achilles injuries, those are incredibly tricky. And you can't tell me that his production will be the same if and when he comes back. And don't get me wrong.

Here's the bold take of the day. You and I don't live the life of Christian McCaffrey, all right? We are not in as good of shape as Christian McCaffrey. We don't have the finances and the money that Christian McCaffrey has. And we're also not married to Olivia Colpa. Yeah, we don't have the spouse. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We do not even have the date of Olivia Colpa.

Forget about actually marrying her, having that honor to marry and spend a lot of time with Olivia Colpa. But whenever you got to go to Germany, to Germany, to figure out something that's going on with your body, that just screams to me major, major, major, major injury. And I understand athletes, celebrities, they live a different life where if Manny had Achilles tendonitis. Gonna go see some quack in North Jersey.

Yeah, I was going to say, Manny ain't going to Germany, all right? So I look around the NFC, San Francisco's two and two, they get the benefit of the doubt. But I don't know what I could expect out of McCaffrey.

Then you look at the South, you know, Tampa is solid. The Falcons are solid, but they're not going to the Super Bowl. Forget about the Saints. Derek Carr will never be in the Super Bowl. He'll be there if he's in attendance as a fan or get an honor for something. The Panthers are the Panthers. It is in New Orleans this season too. That is true. So he could probably get a nice little ticket to the game.

I was gonna say luxury box, but it's way too expensive. The Bears know. The Packers, if love, right now he's back.

They're a team that aspirations. The Vikings, they're 4-0. Minnesota can make the playoffs.

Super Bowl though? No. No.

Commanders, good start. They can make the playoffs. Super Bowl though?

No. Cowboys? I haven't been to a Super Bowl or an NFC championship game since 1995. And the Giants think.

So the one team I left out, I left out the Eagles. And I look at Philadelphia, they have Super Bowl talent, but they got a coaching problem right now. And not only a coaching problem, their defense is now becoming obnoxious. So the defense isn't really showing up and it's one thing not to show up, but then when you run your mouth after not showing up, like what are we doing? CJ Gardner-Johnson, who is a good player in this league, but he bites off way more than he could chew with how much he runs his mouth. And you can't be talking about how much of a beat down you're going to put down on the Buccaneers, and then your defense just get embarrassed by Baker Mayfield. There's a solid quarterback in this league. And then Darius Big plays sleigh.

This is the thing, Manny, where I wonder if you have an issue with this. Micah Parsons does a podcast. Oh yes, yes he does. The Eagles just lost to the Buccaneers. Darius sleigh is on Micah Parsons' podcast, and you know the Eagle fan hates the Cowboys. After a loss, the sky is falling, and they're kind of chirping it up, having a grand old time.

It's a bad look. He didn't do anything illegal, Darius Big plays sleigh. He's going on a podcast. But to go on Micah Parsons' podcast, after you haven't performed well and have gone on like this sympathy tour, or when you talk bad about me, make sure you remember my career statistics.

You know, Darius Big plays sleigh is a good player, very good player. You're not a Hall of Famer, dude. And in Philadelphia of all places, how stupid can you be to go on Micah Parsons' pod? I'm not saying you can't be friends with him. I'm not saying you could never go on the podcast.

But when your team is playing like ass right now, you just can't do that. If you were playing Darius Big plays sleigh, I don't want to offend any particular city. Let's say Carolina.

I can do a weekly with Mac and Bone on WF&Z. I could say that. And David Tepper hates my guts anyway, so I don't think it matters.

But let's say if you're doing a weekly in Carolina, right? And like everyone knows you stink. Everyone knows your team stinks.

Everyone knows that the owner is a joke. If you're going on, I don't know, Lavonte David's podcast, if he had one of the Buccaneers. I don't think the Panthers fans, some will, but I don't think the majority will crush you. In Philadelphia, this passionate, intense city where they hate the Cowboys more than anything, like death taxes and hating the Cowboys in Philadelphia, you cannot go on that podcast after a loss.

So it's a bad look. The Eagles is a chemistry problem. You don't start off 10-1 last year and play like the way that they did down the stretch and then run it back.

Stupid. So where I'm getting at here is the NFC has some good storylines, but I don't think those good storylines of the surprise teams, and I mean good surprises, are going to work into that team being the representative in the Super Bowl. If it's not now, then it's never happening for the Lions because they got a good run game. They got a quarterback that has been to a Super Bowl and has also been to another NFC Championship game.

In now two spots, he's been to NFC Championship games, the Rams and Detroit, and he's in the Super Bowl with the Rams. You got a head coach who's aggressive, right? Like, I'd love to go to a casino with Dan Campbell, right?

Because you know you're gonna be spending money. You're gonna have a fun time, and sometimes you walk out as a winner, sometimes you walk out as a loser. But if you walk out with a winner with Dan Campbell, you know you're winning big. And then you look at the talent on the offense, they have it, and the defense just has to be average.

And that defense is capable, led by Aiden Hutchinson, of being average. If they can't get to the Super Bowl this year, and if they can't win the Super Bowl this year, when you look at the uncertainty in the AFC, outside of Kansas City, but even Kansas City's looking vulnerable, but they looked vulnerable last year. And in the NFC, even your strong teams are going in.

The three teams everyone talked about, the Lions, the Eagles, and the 49ers. The 49ers have warts right now, and the Eagles have a lot of warts right now. They have, like, more warts than, like, when Manny was 13, probably, in middle school. All right.

Yeah, I'm just saying. You look like you probably had a few pimples on your face, right? I mean, yeah, back in the day, a couple.

I digress. I know people that know you when you were a younger fella. I found out we've had some mutual friends. They may have said you were called, you know, some people were called Big Pimpin'.

They called you Big Pimple, though. I cannot confirm nor deny these allegations. But anyway, the point we're getting at, there's a lot of, eh, right now in the NFL. Eh!

That's what there is. Like, oh, I'm watching, because I love making nachos on a Sunday. I love having wings on a Sunday. I love placing my bets. I love finding a way to get some well-done french fries, right? I love doing all that stuff. All that stuff on a Sunday. And we love watching, you love watching football, Manny, right?

Yes, I do. But you watch a lot of bad football. Oh, I've watched bad football for, like, a decade now. So you may not have to be great this year. We always look at all, I have a Super Bowl champion.

They're great. You may not have to be great this year to win the Super Bowl. The Chiefs weren't great last year. That offense wasn't great.

You just need one side of the ball to be great and the other side to be average or you could win. And that's what the Lions have an opportunity to do this year. If they don't win a Super Bowl this year at Detroit, or bare minimum, get there.

I'm not the talk show host that just tells you something to try to make you feel good, right? I'm going to tell you how I honestly think. If it doesn't happen this year, I'm not going to be able to sit here with a lot of certainty to tell you that it's going to happen after this year. Your time is now, Detroit. You got the Tigers in the playoffs. Michigan just won a national championship. I know Michigan State fans are probably like, what about us? What about us? What about us? What about us?

Quiet. You know the Pistons stink. But right now, you got the Tigers in the postseason on this improbable run led by one of the best pitchers in baseball. And right now they're going to the bottom of the ninth.

Tigers about to take a 1-0 lead if their bullpen could just get through this. And you got the Lions who were in an NFC championship game last year and choked it. And now they have an opportunity to not only get to a Super Bowl, but to win, win, win a Super Bowl.

Better get it done, Detroit. Because I've done this before with my team's, well, my football team I knew was always going to be there. But my baseball team, ah, we lost. Heartbreaking playoff game, ah, we lost. Lost the World Series. But they overachieved this year.

Don't worry. We got a young core. We'll be back. Yeah, we'll be back with Noah Sintergaard and Jacob deGrom and Matt Harvey, Zach Wheeler. We'll be back. We'll be back.

What happened? Yikes. When you're there and you got a chance to pounce, you got to pounce. You got to deliver the knockout shot. And that's what Detroit needs to do. Get that Lombardi.

Alrighty, this is the Zach Gelb show on the Infinity Sports Network. Let's start with Devante Adams. Here is the news that we have for you. We talked about this a little while ago that Devante Adams, according to Ian Rapport, has informed the team that he would prefer to be traded. Nothing is imminent, but Devante Adams prefers to be traded. Here is Devante Adams earlier this morning with Kay Adams. So Devante Adams to Kay Adams on up and Adams. Is he done with Raiders?

What I'm hearing is that you here's a lot of people think you're you might may never play another down as a Raider. What would you say to that? All I can control is this this talk we're having right here. And then after we're done with this, all I can control is the next thing that I'm going to. So I'm gonna get up in a minute and go get a nice workout in and that's all I can control. I love some of the comments from Kay Adams. Like here you go. The guest is giving you dynamite. And most people there should just like kind of let the guests keep on saying what they're saying. And she just goes, oh my.

Like that she knows right there in that moment. That is him saying I'm done without saying he's done with the Raiders because six days ago they do a weekly spot. Devante Adams and Kay Adams. Devante Adams said I don't understand why people keep on asking me about my future when I've said before I want to be here with the Raiders. So that was six days ago paraphrasing a little bit, but that was the gist of the quote. And then six days later, you know, you're done with the Raiders.

Yeah, I'm just going to control what I could control. Yikes. Well, this all goes back to Devante Adams getting asked about Antonio Pierce liking a post about Devante Adams getting traded potentially. Your coach, I actually don't know, likes this post about you getting traded. How quickly, how soon did you hear from coach? Yeah, I haven't heard from him. I haven't talked to him. So I've been, yeah, I don't know. I don't really know exactly what that was about. Obviously I got, you know, social media is a beast.

So it's a lot of people out there that saw it and, you know, wondering what's going on and people reaching out. And yeah, I haven't, I haven't spoke to him. At the end of the day, one seven doesn't create any. So people can say what they want, but I'm just chilling, trying to be the model for, you know, not stirring the pot and just, just locking in and doing what I got to do. So Manny, let's just play a little game here.

Right? I love games. Let's say you're an employee here at the infinity sports network. Okay. And let's say, I don't know, you're working on my show and I'm the host of the show, the Zach Gelb show. And let's say someone sends me a message about Manny Rodriguez. Like, Oh, Manny's an a-hole. Don't really like Manny. He's a bad dude. I don't know how Zach, you know, works with this guy.

And let's just say, I didn't comment on it, but I liked it. I wouldn't feel great Zach. You would feel some type of way, right? Yeah, I would. So imagine then if that became a news story, like Awful Announcing or Barrett Sports Media writes about how Zach Gelb likes a post trashing one of his producers. And let's say, right, this started to make the rounds. If I actually cared about the person, or if I disagree with what was being said, and sometimes, right, you fat finger something on social media and you like something that you don't mean to like, it's happened to the best of us. Yeah. I'm not going to go down that road. I do a sports show, but could you imagine if then the next day I just never brought it up to you? Right? Never talk to you? And I know. Oh, the whole world knows.

It would make you even further believe, hey, that's true. F that guy. I'm done with him, right? Yeah. I'd be done with you.

How dare you not bring it up? Hmm. You breaking up with me? Yeah, man. Get some new glasses. Okay. That's not nice.

Glasses are very nice. Maybe I will like that post about Manny Rodriguez that people keep on saying to me about your crappy producers built. You said it was Fuji? Not fake, my friend.

Not fake. Let's go to Chad Ochocinco. There's a lot here. Chad Ochocinco, Shannon Sharp, Coach Prime. They're doing a podcast together.

It's on Nightcap with Shannon Sharp and Chad Ochocinco. Chad Ochocinco makes a joke. This is the first audio clip that we'll play for you about Coach Prime obviously missing some toes.

And the kind of teacher I am, I don't do it with words. I put the cleats on and actually show. I come out there, I route Travis' ass up, and then I lock him up. Yeah, but what if I get mad that you routed Travis up and I put my cleats on?

You can't do no eight toes, man. See what I'm saying? I knew you were going to say that. I set you up for that. I ain't think you was going to take the bait. Y'all ain't no good.

Y'all, you know what? Bye. Bye. I'm going. I'm going.

Bye. Two years ago, I was interviewing Coach Prime, or maybe it was last year. It was whenever the foot situation happened where he had to get two toes amputated. And I was on with Shannon Crowder and Mark Hochman on 560WQAM, and they go, you're going to ask him about his toes? They're like, you can't ask him about his toes. And I was like, I wasn't thinking about it, but maybe like, hey, you feeling OK? And impromptu, Coach Prime brings up the toes in his interview and he goes, I'll never forget this. He goes, my toes are looking like Vienna sausages right now. It's a good line by him. Anyway, we got more.

Here is a gem from Deion Sanders. Remember that little nookie nookie time that Shannon Sharp was having a few weeks ago? Michelle, right? Oh, you know her name? That was the name that was apparently in the video. Oh, you heard the name Michelle in that video?

Michelle Beadle actually tweeted. It's not me. Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. Right.

Right. Yeah, I did not, as it sounds like Manny did, become an expert listening and watching that video. I heard it while it was happening, while we were on the air and I saw the reaction. I press play for about three, four seconds. I go, I know what's going on in that room.

Click. Don't need to hear the rest of it. So Coach Prime had a little fun at the expense of Shannon Sharp about the sex tape. Listen, if you're going to stage it, at least you're going to have a highlight show. It's going to be sound effect. I'm going to have everything jumping off.

I'm coming out to smoke. That's amazing. That's unbelievable.

You know what? That clip is so great. Play it again. Listen, if you're going to stage it, at least you're going to have a highlight show. That was a highlight. That was a highlight show at all.

That was a low light. If you're going to stage it, it's going to be some of my best work. What's my name? Too Sweet.

Who the baddest? Sure enough. If I'm going to stage it, it's going to be sound effect. I'm going to have roars in there. Pyro tech is going to have everything jumping off.

Everything. Smoke. I'm coming out to smoke like I did in Atlanta. If I'm going to stage it, it's going to be. I'm going to come out. Give me my theme music.

That's unbelievable. You know, I'm trying to think of a player comparison here with the energy that Coach Prime was basically telling Shannon Sharpie needed to have in that video. And the only thing I could think of is, you know, we know Coach Prime used to be a Raven for a little bit. Remember the Ray Lewis introduction?

Where, you know, he would do that dance move and then it would do the, I don't even know how to describe it and I'm not going to do the dance move right now. But the classic Ray Lewis introduction. That's almost how Coach Prime wanted Shannon Sharpie to walk into the bedroom and then perform the deed. Man, Coach Prime going out of his way to criticize the way Shannon Sharpie has it going on. You need the smoke machines.

You need the smoke machines like he's coming out the tunnel in Atlanta. I was trying to figure how I was going to say that without getting dumped. You know, I was I was very careful there and trying to figure out. And I just said, OK, how he was getting it on. But last one, Shannon Sharp had a little problem in saying the name of the Atlanta Falcons kicker, Yung Way Coo. Listen up. Yung Ho Coo kicks the Falcons to a win.

What? Yung Way? Yung Way? Yung Way Ho Coo? No, you ain't what you said, dog. What'd I say? I said Yung Ho Coo.

No, you can't. That's not their name. What's his name? Yung Way or Yung Ho? You see what I'm saying? Don't try to change that, dog.

You got to stop that, man. Look how it's spelled. How is it spelled, dog?

H-O. OK, how to spell Yung? How do they spell it Yung? They don't spell it Yung like we spell it. I bet they spell it Y-U-E-N-G.

So how do you know how to spell that and you know how to spell the other one? So when I was the host of Ion Football, which is now Gridiron Game Day with Pat Boyle, the thing that would annoy me the most is when the stringers, and we have great stringers that go to the stadium, they do the call and reports like, hey, first and 10 with 3.33 remaining in the second quarter. Bobby O'Karaoke just forced a fumble on Jalen Hurts. The Giants have recovered and they are putting the ball down at like the 25-yard line or whatever.

Two minutes remaining and right now the Giants lead the Eagles 6-3. You know, that's that would be the kind of the point of the show. Nothing would annoy me more when there was a name that would get mispronounced. And it's like one thing when it's an obvious player. And then when it's a play that's a little unknown, it still bugged me.

But if it was a home team stringer that messed up a road team player, OK, I could live with it. But we had a stringer the first time he had to say the name Yung-Wei Ku, who was a reporter for the Falcons, covered the Falcons. He said on the air like Yung-Ho Ku made a 33-yard field goal. And I get into the producer's ear via the microphone. I'm like, hey, you got to tell this stringer that it's Yung-Wei Ku.

It's not Yung-Ho Ku. Shannon Sharpe making that mistake. That's just like, it's not like this guy's a rookie anymore.

How does that happen? All righty. Last one. Let's go to Draymond Green. A little kerfuffle with the reporter. Let's listen up. You know, people worry about you, the fans, maybe your teammates. How do they worry about me?

I am a successful black man in America doing incredibly well. What's the worry about me? They worry about you. There are way more people in this world than me. There are way more people in this world to worry about than me.

That's for sure. But we're here now. So we're all here. I don't think you should worry about me. Okay.

I'm doing pretty well. He's just so unlikable. He really is. Because he does things that are wrong. And then when people have concern for him, he basically just dismisses it. He never holds himself accountable in Draymond Green. And when there's an incident this year, that situation, again, he's well off financially, has a great life.

That's going to come back to bite him. All righty. That's the news brief. It is Zach Yeltsch on the Infinity Sports Network. Manny, I want to inform you of something. I like to tweet that I was just sent. It was sent from a man by the name of Psychmampter. At Moist Mike ISD is the Twitter handle. It's an egg face. Zach Gelb dot, dot, dot. Hey, your producer, Manny Rodriguez is a bum.

So I ended up liking that. The true story. You're a bum? That's what I hear. I don't know. I don't know how many bums that are dressed in a baby blue sweatshirt and also a bomber. All right. We got a final Detroit. They hold on.

They take care of business up against the Houston Astros. Three one. You're not offended that I just gave that news. Offended? Yeah. I'm offended that you said that the Tigers won a game.

Oh, I thought I heard a noise from you. It was wow. Oh, well, they got out of it. And your dad Alvarez hit that on the screws. Gotcha.

I thought that was like, wow. Gelb just took away from my update, which I'm like that. But not like you. Yeah. Well, there's some people around here that if I gave that piece of news, they would be very annoyed with me. Just you take that up with them.

I can't speak for others. You're a Yankees fan, obviously. Correct. You wear this Yankees hat every day.

Correct. The YouTube chat loves your Yankees hat. Oh, yeah. Do you want to see the Astros or are you at a point where you know that the Astros, even though they don't have their best team this year, they own you guys. So it's like, hey, even with that being said, and it would be fun to beat the Astros, I'm more than fine with them going home to the Tigers. Arrogance is not something that any Yankee fan should have. Okay. So the idea that you're worried about who you could possibly see in the ALCS, worry about getting through whoever comes out of that Oriole Royal series because the Yankees have enough issues. This is not 1999 when I was arrogant enough then to be like, I don't know.

I want to see something different. No, no. All right. So Manny Rodriguez, because I think I knew how you were going to answer that.

I'm just going to try to throw a dart on a board here, and I think I'm going to hit a bullseye. Manny, because I know what kind of sports fan you are. Yeah. I feel like you like to celebrate other teams losing more than your teams winning. You should have heard the Yelp I just gave out watching that final out over here. Bingo.

You are afraid of the Astros, and you are rooting as hard as possible for the Astros to go down here. Yeah. Thank you. I just wanted to because sometimes that's not a bad thing. That's understandable. Crushing it.

Question. Isn't that how the 2000 Mets got to the World Series by avoiding the Braves? But I'm not, like, sitting here saying, like, for example, in my lifetime, the Patriots. There was a year. I think it was when the Colts played the Broncos in a divisional round. The Patriots are waiting AFC championship.

Maybe it was they were waiting division around. I forget which it was, but there was a chance we were going to see Brady Manning again. And I wanted to see that even though it would have been easier to go up against the Colts with Andrew Luck, who was like a rookie or a second year quarterback at that time. So I don't sit there and say, oh, I hate this team so much. I need to see them lose. So I can't do it. I mean, listen, if the Yankees and the Astros end up meeting in the playoffs, great, whatever. I'll suffer through it.

But I would rather them not play the Astros. Here's why. I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong. I just I just know that you are someone that you will throw a parade on social media if the Astros lose. That's right.

Thank you. Yeah, I'm just saying I'm glad you're admitting it, because sometimes I call you out for some things you do and you'll be like, no, that's a lie. No, no, no, no, no, no. So now you're just being honest with the listening audience.

It's good. I've never spread lies. Did you not once root for the Buffalo Bills? No, I just went to school.

Out there. You were wearing a Bills hat here once. Just because I wore a Diamondbacks hat once. You don't see me being sad because the Diamondbacks just got eliminated because the Braves and the Mets just split a series. You are sad because now the Mets are in the postseason and you can't stand the Mets.

It's not that. I mean, it's nice to have them in the playoffs. I'm just curious to how much longer the season is going to go on. Another two, three games for the Mets, perhaps. This is what I'm going to get when the Mets get eliminated, because I'm not like heck, you are now predicting the Mets to get to the World Series. I know we're going to get some obnoxious posts for man. You're like, Oh, hate to see it. Sorry, Mets fans.

Oh my God. It's going to annoy me. It's going to annoy me. No, get ready for it. There may be some fisticuffs. I'll get ready for it because you're going to get that more than just Manny.

Yeah, but it only annoy me for Manny. Oh, OK. All right. All right. It's a personal thing. OK. All right. I didn't realize it went that deep.

Too much social media for Manny with that stuff. OK, so all right. I'm learning. I'm learning.

You got an update for us? Apparently. I don't know. I'm not in control of this. Oh, oh, I have to talk. That's right. Yes. This is your show.

Sorry, I forgot. Yeah, I don't get to play the music. I don't have anything to do with this. I just play my part. What happens if I just sat here for the rest of the show and just never threw it to you? You could find out if you'd like. Please don't. Oh, you know what?

Yes, nicely. Let's get the latest sports update. Here is a Capitan. Marco Valetti. It is Zach Gelb's show on the Infinity Sports Network. The Mets are already down one nothing to the Brewers in the bottom of the first. The Mets have not registered an out yet. It is one nothing, and they have runners on first and second.

Yikes. And Hickey right before this game started tweets this out. The Mets are winning the World Series. The season has been magical.

Grimace OMG yesterday's comeback. You think all of those things happen just to result in a wild card exit? Hell no. This is the year. Sometimes sports resembles a movie. This is one of those times. It's a good job, Manny.

It's a good job. I don't know about you, Manny. And you're like a crazy sports fan. I'm a crazy sports fan.

I don't think there's a crazier sports fan, though, in our office than Hickey. Because any time his team wins a game, it's right from 0 to 100, where it's right away. Oh, they're winning it all, which is just like crazy. Everyone won a playoff game yet. He's already saying they're winning it all.

And they had to fight their way to the last game or the second to last game of the season to get into the postseason. The walking definition of recency bias has won Ryan Hickey. I mean, that's an unfortunate fact. He's so reactionary.

But you know what? That's why we love Ryan Hickey. He is the king. I used to do some instant reaction videos. I still will from time to time. But he is the king of the instant reaction video.

Like, right away, there's a take where it's going from a team could be down and out to all of a sudden they're going to find the way to win it all. He's just asking to get trolled on social media. Hickey must be making good coin on all the clicks on social media.

I got to imagine. You think he's putting up influencer numbers? You think he's putting up Livy Dunn numbers? Oh, no one's putting up Livy Dunn numbers. Come on, what are we doing?

I'm actually upset. I saw Livy Dunn was on with DA on Sirius in the mornings in studio. How the heck did we not book Livy Dunn in studio? Well, she was in New York because the Pirates finished the regular season against the Yankees. Yeah, she was here, though, like a week or two before. She was doing some promotional thing with Flau'jae Johnson, also the former. I don't know if she's still part of the LSU program or not, or former.

But the former, well, maybe current LSU Tigers basketball player. Anyway, real quickly, Manny, because I just want to try something. You have an inane ability and a unique ability to name any stadium in the country, right? Sure.

I think you can. Like baseball too? Yeah. Baseball. American Family Field is where the Mets are playing right now. Oh, wow. It's not Miller Park? No, not anymore. Not since sometime in the 2020s, if I'm not mistaken. Okay, so you're really good at this?

For the four major sports, I'd say I'm okay with it. Like, I had a friend growing up as a kid who could name any president. Like, he would say, third president. You have the answer. John Quincy Adams.

And he would also be able to get the vice president too. Like, sick. So Orioles, let's go through the game. Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Wow, I just know it's Camden Yards. It's Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Brewers, one more time?

American Family Field. Okay. Let's do Slam Diego. Braves and Padres. That'd be Petco Park. Yep.

And then, I think this one is easy. What about your favorite baseball team, the Astros? Where did they play?

They just lost to the Tigers. That'd be the Juice Box Minute Maid Park. That'd be correct.

Yeah. Is there one you ever got stumped on? Let me tell you, the six Canadian hockey teams, especially when we start getting towards Calgary and Vancouver, that's when I start to get tripped up. Okay, I was gonna say, if you couldn't get Montreal, the Canadians, I'd be like, you're a fraud. I'd be the Bell Center. Where do the Kansas City Royals play?

Kansas City Royals, Kaufman, the K. Okay, they're pretty good. And also, if you got any of these wrong, unless if I knew them, I can't really call you out on it too. Oh, you don't have a Wikipedia page right in front of you, like how I spend my nights in college?

The answers are in the computer. You ever see Zoolander? You've never seen Zoolander? I think I have.

So that means you haven't seen Z- oh my god. I can't remember it. Zoolander came out a couple years ago, over a decade ago now, right?

A couple years ago. Yeah, I don't remember what happened two days ago. You want me to remember movies from a decade ago? The answers are in the computer! And he smashes the computer expecting the answers to pop out of the computer.

But then he broke the computer where the answers are. Movie came out in 2001. I was three years old, four years old. Okay, I was born in 1994.

I've seen the movie. I am your old. How old are you?

27. Enough of this guy. All right, that's the Zach Gelb Show on the Infinity Sports Network. Did the Mets just walk someone in or hit someone? It's now two nothing, Brewers.

Disgraceful. Big thanks to Ashton Genti for joining us. I love that conversation with him. If you missed it, you could use the rewind function on the Odyssey app to check it out at 3 20 p.m. Eastern Time. We also have it up on our YouTube page as well.

And you can also check my Twitter page, at Zach Gelb, Z-A-C-H-G-E-L-B, and we'll also be posting a few excerpts from that on Instagram as well. So always enjoy when we get to talk some Boise State football and we get to talk to someone who, man, through four games, it is tough to see someone playing better in college football than him. Jalen Milro is in that conversation. Travis Hunter in that conversation as well. But 82 carries, 845 yards, and 13 touchdowns so far for Ashton Genti. And he was phenomenal. It was wild. I was like thinking about guys that he reminds me of. And I had Alvin Kamara, Marshawn Lynch, and Derek Henry.

When I asked him that question, he said he models his game after Alvin Kamara and also Marshawn Lynch. Big thanks to Manny Rodriguez. Big thanks to Moise Mike.

Big thanks to El Capitan, Marco Bolletti, and also each and every one of you. I am off tomorrow, but I will be back on Thursday. I need to take a day tomorrow, but I am back on Thursday and Friday. We'll get you covered for the rest of the week at 3 p.m. Eastern, noon Pacific. I'm out. Bye-bye. Peace.