MLB MVP, WNBA Playoffs, and the Patrick Mahomes who isn't Patrick Mahomes

Summary

Casuals with Katie Nolan – Episode Summary

Episode: MLB MVP, WNBA Playoffs, and the Patrick Mahomes who isn't Patrick Mahomes
Date: September 23, 2025
Host: Katie Nolan
Regulars: Isabella, Chris, Brady (the “guy who knows everything about everything”)

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Overview

This episode blends the usual lighthearted, irreverent sports banter with deep-dive discussion of the final week of the MLB season, the complexities of MVP voting, bizarre and fun sports stories, WNBA playoff thrills, and viral sports personalities. The crew is joined by their typical rotating cast (Isabella, Chris, Brady) for a nuanced but casual look at the news, with plenty of banter, questions, and engagement with listener correspondence.

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Main Segments & Key Discussion Points

1. Housekeeping & Listener Mail

• Nugget Eating Stories (04:34–08:07)

  • A deluge of emails from listeners about their personal ‘chicken nugget challenge’ stories, including an Air Force flyer who completed 100 nuggets during a 12-hour military flight.
    • Quote (Katie, 07:27): “Aaron, we do say that. We do say that. We love you and we mean it, guys. That just enthused me and it’s like 9am.”
  • The hosts riff on the relatability of binge eating “nugget stories” and whether each tale is really unique.

• College Sports Nostalgia (08:07–10:17)

  • Listener Andrew suggests Katie and Isabella visit a Hofstra volleyball match. Clearing up that Hofstra now only has a women’s volleyball team.
    • Quote (Katie, 09:13): “Roll Pride. Roll Pride.”
    • Banter about how college names, like Elon, can cause confusion (“That’s where he’s been!”).

• NASCAR Update (10:17–10:37)

  • Shoutout to Ryan Blaney, friend of the pod, for a recent win.
  • Quick aside about how NASCAR fans spring up around any track.

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2. NFL Monday Night Football Recap & "Mahomes Cosplay"

• Quick Recap: Lions vs. Ravens (14:28–16:01)

  • Lions beat the Ravens 38-30. Discussion about the pressure on Lamar Jackson and seven sacks in the game.
    • Quote (Brady, 15:26): “Lamar Jackson is like trying to get a dog into a bathtub. … He will get away from anything.”

• Mahomes' Quirky Play (16:01–16:47)

  • Katie and Brady react to Chris Collinsworth’s praise of Mahomes for a “created” fumble recovery.
    • Quote (Brady, 16:47): “Look how he set his own kitchen on fire and then put it out. Great job, great fire safety.”

• Nebraska QB Dylan Raiola – "Patrick Mahomes Cosplayer" (17:14–20:16)

  • Raiola emulates Mahomes from haircut to on-field hand signals.
  • Raiola laments constant comparisons, but the crew finds that he’s brought it on himself.
    • Quote (Katie, 19:27): “He has his own name, but he should be paying Patrick for his image and likeness.”

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3. Sports Movie Review: “Him” & Football in Film

• Isabella reviews the football movie "Him", which disappointed due to plot, not horror/scary elements.
  • (20:33–22:41)
  • Katie and Isabella laugh about how the film briefly made Isabella "not like football."
    • Quote (Isabella, 22:32): “There was a part of me watching this … I know this is a horror movie. But a part of me was like, this makes me kind of not like football.”

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4. Eli Manning, Jackson Dart, & Legend Disrespect

• (23:00–26:07)
• Eli Manning is hilariously asked for a top NYC dinner reservation by college QB Jackson Dart.
  • Debate over how much help legends “owe” the next generation.
    • Quote (Katie, 25:05): “Can I have this? … Did he get the reservation? … I’m not your reservations guy.”

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5. Deep Dive: The Wild MLB Playoff Race & MVP Debate

MLB Playoff Math and Bubble Teams (26:42–32:00)

• Katie explains the playoff format to Isabella: divisions, wild cards, and tiebreakers.
• American League and National League wild, crowded races detailed.
• Focus on Mariners vs. Astros, with Katie owning her Astros hate and Mariners “side-piece” love.
• Notable Quote:
  • (Katie, 30:45) “I’m winking at the Mariners side piece. Well, the Phillies are technically my side piece. I guess the Mariners are like … the one that got away.”

Mariners’ Sweep & Cal Raleigh’s Case for AL MVP (32:00–35:36)

• Mariners swept the Astros in Houston, Cal Raleigh (“Big Dumper”) broke home run record for catchers.
• Spirited MVP debate: Katie believes MVP should reflect the story of the season, not just stats like WAR.
  • Quote (Katie, 33:01): "If Cal Raleigh is not MVP this season, I feel like we're doing MVP wrong. Is that crazy?”
  • Quote (Brady, 33:08): “He’s having the greatest season ever by a catcher, which is the hardest position to play.”
  • Dismisses reliance on “wins above replacement” (WAR) as too abstract for MVP awards.
  • Quote (Katie, 34:26): “I don’t care about your WAR. I literally care about the value you brought to the game.”

MLB Anecdotes (35:36–39:59)

• Katie laments losing her blackout-free MLB TV account (“I had to watch baseball like you people, it was disgusting.” – 37:10).
• Victor Robles’ redemption: After months of rehab and earlier suspension, he makes a highlight-reel catch, helping Mariners.
  • Quote (A, 38:12): “Victor Robles … went flying over and caught the ball. It was amazing. The Mariners are incredible.”

Standings Implications & Astros’ Peril (39:02–40:34)

• Mariners three games up, Astros on the outside of the playoffs, could miss wild card.
• “Mattress Mack” discussion and Houston sporting culture.

AL Central Chaos: Detroit’s Funky Slide (41:34–42:28)

• Detroit Tigers’ once-massive lead evaporated after they started the “Trump Dance” celebration, now “skidding.”
• Quote (D, 42:36): “They pooped the bed like they just had a hundred nuggets.”

Fluky Plays & Mets Drama (42:28–47:16)

• Jacob Young’s ‘hacky sack catch’ for Nationals—repeat defensive marvel.
• Mets continued woes, fans' search for scapegoats, and Isabella’s personal grudges.
  • Quote (Isabella, 47:13): “There was this one guy … Siri … I don’t know, he was pissing me off that game.”

Dodgers & Baseball Farewells (49:42–52:04)

• Clayton Kershaw’s quiet retirement gets overshadowed by broadcast complaints—should legends be required to get mainstream air?
  • Quote (Brady, 51:31): “Clayton Kershaw had the championship belt as the best pitcher in baseball for … six years. … known to be the greatest ping pong player to ever play baseball.”

More MLB Shoutouts (53:24–55:31)

• Mike Trout hits 400th home run ("He’s so good, he never slipped up ..." – 53:36).
• Emphasis on how the culture of “what will you give me for the milestone ball” has shifted.
  • Guy who caught Trout’s 400th asks only for a “catch” on the field with Trout.
• Quote (Katie, 55:22): “Having a catch with Mike Trout is the coolest thing you could possibly do to a certain subset … of baseball fans.”

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6. WNBA Playoffs — Surprises & Social Issues

Valkyries Eliminated, Awards, and Playoff Outcomes (55:51–58:04)

• Valkyries lose to Lynx despite a big lead—highlighting overachievement and record attendance.
• Review of other playoff results:
  • Aces beat Storm
  • Mercury upset Liberty
  • Fever beat Dream, then shockingly defeat Aces in next round (58:04).

WNBA Star Power and Pay Equity (58:04–60:02)

• Caitlin Clark fined only $200 for ref comment; discussion on how such small fines reflect WNBA’s pay disparities.
  • Quote (Katie, 59:41): “If you can only fine your athletes $200 … I really don’t know how to make the argument better to you [that salaries should be higher].”

Press Conference Awkwardness & Coaching Diversity (60:04–61:28)

• Players asked live if they want to fire their coach (“Imagine … someone asked me: ‘So, should we fire Brady?’” – 60:53).
• Seattle Storm’s firing of Noelle Quinn leaves WNBA with zero Black women head coaches; only two Black men, one Asian-American woman.
  • Quote (Katie, 61:35): “We could maybe stand to change that. I would like that to be different than it is.”

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7. Quirky & Viral Sports Stories

Bruce Pearl’s Sudden Retirement & Nepotism (71:28–74:15)

• Auburn basketball head coach Bruce Pearl retires just before the season, his son—whose only experience is coaching under his father—takes over as head coach.
  • Quote (Katie, 72:26): “His son has signed a five-year deal to be the head coach. I’m sure the buyout is low … [He] took over a program his dad built.”
• Bruce Pearl’s political ambitions debated; coincidental previous retweet about nepotism in basketball is highlighted.

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8. Segment: “Am I Too Old For This?”

LeBron Claims & Football Grandpa (63:25–67:44)

• LeBron claims (again) to have predicted Kobe’s 81-point game.
  • Quote (Brady, 64:08): “I’m telling you, every time I say something, everyone thinks it’s a fucking lie.”
• Viral: 58-year-old Thomas Sillo plays college football as a defensive lineman. Panel debates if it’s inspiring or irresponsible.
  • Katie: “Yes, you are too old for this … I don’t want to discourage you, but … it scares me.”

Tom Brady vs. Dave Portnoy Twitter Drama (67:44–69:55)

• Bizarre spat over rumors of Tom Brady’s alleged Saudi payday; panel concludes both are “too old for this.”
  • Quote (Katie, 68:33): “I could punch that up. … You gave him shine in this moment. Shouldn’t have done that.”

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9. What to Watch This Week (74:15–76:53)

• AFL Grand Final: Brisbane Lions vs. Geelong Cats; Sat. Sept 27, 12:30am ET, FS2.
• Women’s Rugby World Cup Finals: Canada vs. England, Sept 27, 11am ET, Paramount+; 3rd place: New Zealand vs. France.
• NFL Sunday Night Football: Packers vs. Cowboys, Sept 28, 8:20pm ET.
• MLB: Final frantic week; enjoy your team, “even if it’s your last chance before a long winter.”
• Fun Fact: Braves sign Charlie Morton for one final career start.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• "Aaron, we do say that. ... We love you and we mean it, guys." (Katie, 07:27)
• "Lamar Jackson is like trying to get a dog into a bathtub ... he will get away from anything." (Brady, 15:26)
• "If Cal Raleigh is not MVP this season, I feel like we’re doing MVP wrong. Is that crazy?" (Katie, 33:01)
• "I don’t care about your WAR. I literally care about the value you brought to the game." (Katie, 34:26)
• "He gets the people going." (Katie, about Cal Raleigh, 35:41)
• Victorious Victor Robles: "He just went flying over and caught the ball. ... The Mariners are incredible." (Katie, 38:12)
• "I had to watch baseball like you people I know. Ew. It was disgusting." (Katie, 37:14)
• On the Mets’ bad luck: "They pooped the bed like they just had a hundred nuggets." (Chris, 42:36)
• “Having a catch with Mike Trout is the coolest thing you could possibly do to a certain subset of, like, age group of baseball fans.” (Katie, 55:22)
• "If you can only fine your athletes $200 … I really don’t know how to make the argument better to you [that salaries should be higher]." (Katie, 59:41)
• “We could maybe stand to change that. I would like that to be different than it is.” (Katie, on WNBA’s lack of Black women head coaches, 61:35)

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, witty, relatable—reassuring for the sports-curious, fun for the sports-obsessed.
• Quick banter, inside jokes, friendly jabs—all grounded by good sports knowledge.
• Frequent diversions for pop culture, food, and listener engagement.

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Useful for Listeners Who Haven’t Tuned In:

• Educational for newcomers (e.g., detailed explanations of MLB playoffs, MVP debates).
• Heartfelt sports moments (Mike Trout’s milestone, Mariners’ run, Kershaw farewell).
• Social commentary (WNBA pay, coaching diversity).
• Leitmotif: It’s okay to love (or irrationally dislike) teams and players for emotional reasons, not just stats.

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For the Next Episode

• Mina Kimes joins for deep NFL analysis.
• Ryder Cup preview promised, with potential appearance from Katie’s dad.
• Follow-up on Bruce Pearl’s next moves.

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Contact & Socials:

• Email: [e-mail]
• Voicemail: 646-801-0043
• IG/TikTok: @casualsthepodcast
• Fan Service (live): Mon–Fri, noon–1pm ET, Mad Dog Radio

Sign-off:
“Love you, Mina. Bye.”
(Katie, 77:49)

Transcript

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2025 CT mobile.com network hey Isabella, did you see that the beloved Florida manatee named Hugh died from, quote, high intensity sexual behavior, end quote, with his brother.

[C]

First of all, how do you spell Hugh?

[A]

H U G, H. That's. That's your question?

[C]

I was thinking more of like color.

[A]

Hue.

[C]

Like hue. I mean, but I don't know how to answer this.

[A]

I don't know how to respond to. I think you. I actually think you honed in on the only part you could find.

[C]

You wanna know why? It's because the second half of it, I didn't want to process that, so I just went straight.

[A]

This is all from the US Department of Agriculture. They released an autopsy report.

[C]

Do you think he knew it was his breath?

[A]

I don't know what goes on in the minds of manatees.

[C]

Can animals tell when it's there? They have to. They.

[A]

Hello and welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast that. Well, the sports podcast. How about this? It's a gateway sports podcast. It's the sports podcast that you use to get into doing sports podcasts. More, More. A lot more. But. But you can also just do the Gateway Forever. That's like me. I do the. I'm only. I only smoke weed. I'm Katie Nolan. I'm the host of the podcast. It's Tuesday, which means I'm joined by my producers, the casualties. We have our sports newbie, Isabella. Hi. What? Hi. Hi. You know, we're on a time crunch.

[C]

I'm sorry.

[A]

You know our Aussie editor, Chris. I gotta come up with a better thing for you.

[D]

Ah, that's fine. What's up?

[A]

No, it'll be better next time. It's the morning. These are the. These are the trade offs.

[D]

We get what we get.

[A]

And the guy who knows everything about everything, Brady. Whoa.

[D]

Okay, now I'm upset about the editing one.

[C]

Wait, yeah, now I want a new. What the hell? I want a new title.

[A]

Everybody thinks I hate Brady, so I have to be nicer to Brady. It's just, it's the morning, okay? I'm not my best me to three people in the morning. And so that's me making up for it. The guy who knows everything about everything, Brady. Did you say hi?

[B]

Hello.

[A]

Okay, that's Brady. You can reach us by email, casualswithkatynolanmail.com you can leave us a voicemail. Oh, I wrote phone [phone]. Still don't know it. Crazy. And on IG and tick tock, we are at casuals. The podcast coming up in a little bit. The last week of the MLB season is shaping up to be a pretty interesting one. Bruce Pearl abruptly retired and I believe we have the triumphant return of. Am I too old for this? Everyone's favorite segment that we've done. I think one time we did it.

[D]

And if we did, it was very, very early on.

[A]

Really early. We did it a lot in our test shows, so the ones that didn't go anywhere. And so to us, this is a triumphant return to form the. For you, you're gonna see a segment that barely still. Barely works. Even still. But first, housekeeping. I think we gotta figure out this part of the podcast. But I think usually this is where we just catch you up on anything that has happened in the past that we need to update you on or answer correspondence we've received. As always, Chris, you will put like a little thing in the podcast, let people know when the news starts, Right? The time codes, the word I'm looking for.

[D]

Timecodes, correct? Yes.

[A]

Thank you very much. So if you don't care about this, that's fine. I don't care about you. I do, I do. I care about you deeply. But you can still skip ahead. Thank you so much. Let's start with an email. Apparently people wanted people have been waiting for the floodgates to open to talk to us about how many nuggets they can eat in one sitting because we've received more correspondence about this.

[B]

You were like, why are we talking so much about nuggets? And I keep telling you, everyone has a nugget story. It's the most relatable binge eating story on the planet.

[D]

A lot of people eating a lot of nuggets.

[A]

And may I say something without that may be controversial, yet I also feel brave. How many nugget stories are unique? At what point are we hearing the same nugget story of a person who tried to eat a bunch at once and then suffered the consequences? You know, variations, but it's mostly the same.

[B]

How many of them involve cartoon foxes?

[A]

Okay, is that what we have today?

[B]

Far away?

[A]

Okay, let's. Let's hear it.

[D]

I just thought the one Brady.

[A]

Oh, that's so funny. That's so funny. We had two. That's so funny. Oh.

[D]

Both of them. Both of them did involve the 100 nugget limit.

[A]

Everyone.

[D]

Everyone's doing 100. Everyone's reaching for the hundred. They're not going for that 270.

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The one we deleted. Was someone trying to. Their goal was to finish a hundred nuggets before the end of the Fantastic Mr. Fox, which blessed our heart.

[A]

It's a 90 minute movie. How many minutes is that movie?

[B]

I would hope it's not more than 90 minutes. I don't think it needs like.

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I thought it was a good time. I thought it was a good movie, right?

[B]

Good movies are 90 minutes long.

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I don't know. Good movies are an hour long. I don't know who said that. Chris, please.

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This one's from Aaron. I chose Aaron's email instead. Aaron said. Hello, new listener.

[A]

Whoa. Shout out. What? How'd you get here? What's. Do you like it?

[D]

Listen to this. I told my boyfriend I wanted him to teach me more so I could enjoy watching sports with him. I love an event to dress up for and eat tasty snacks and drink beer, but I need emotional ties to get into a game. He led me to your podcast and I'm loving it so far. You see why I chose this one?

[A]

Perfect. This is good. Good producing.

[D]

Thank you. The story. I'm a flyer for the Air Force. Our jet has a large crew and I work in the back.

[A]

What?

[D]

Not a pilot? Back when we, the usa, were still at war in the Middle east, we used to do 12 hour flights and had a 100 nug challeng. We always had nuggets on hand and we have an oven on board. One of my favorite crew members did in fact complete this challenge without any Illness. Probably some rough poos after.

[A]

But not as bad scientific term, I think.

[D]

But not as bad as the guy from last week's podcast. Erin is talking about. Si. He had plenty of sauce, still holds bragging rights, and got a little patch that says 100 nugs, which he can wear proudly. Thanks. And I guess we say love you. Mean it. Your new fan, Aaron.

[A]

Aaron. We do say that. We do say that. We love you and we mean it, guys. That just enthused me and it's like 9am yeah.

[B]

I've never been patch on a flight suit that says a hundred nugs.

[A]

Wait, I'm sorry, did I hear right? They have an oven on their.

[D]

I was very surprised and impressed.

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Shout out. That's amazing. That's amazing that they have on their jet an oven and 12 hour flights. 100 nuggets. I feel like I could do that. See, here I am. I've arrived at. I could do it. I couldn't. I couldn't. Okay, we have another email. Yes, about Hofstra.

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We do.

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This one's from Andrew from Rockville center. And Andrew says, first off, I'm a huge fan of the pod and a longtime fan of Katie, who is a fellow Hofstra alum and New England native. I love the talk with Catherine Blandford about the tailgate scene in SEC and was amused when Katie mentioned her one tailgate experience at Hofstra before the program was unfortunately dropped in 2009 soon after she graduated. When they laid, I always thought it.

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Was my sophomore year. I just stopped going. They were that bad.

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Just like completely put it out of your memory.

[A]

That's funny.

[D]

When they later discussed how amazing a sports college volleyball is and Katie said she would love to attend a match, I was thinking what better place to see one than her alma mater? As Hofstra is off to an unbeaten 9.0start. Excuse me, 9 0start. The Pride next host Elon on the weekend of October 4th and 5th with upcoming matches as well. So perhaps Katie and Isabella could make the short trip to Nassau county to catch some entertaining live D1 volleyball action. Andrew ends by saying, it may not be a major college football, but I bet you both would have an amazing time and it could create some entertaining content for the show.

[A]

Dude, I'd go show.

[D]

Roll pride.

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Roll pride. Roll pride.

[B]

Roll pride.

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Roll pride.

[C]

Can you do a sad Roll pride.

[A]

Roll pride. She was so good at that. She watched that clip so much when she did the like. Ah. Roll Tide. So good. Shout out. Katherine Blandford. She's great. Go see her on tour, I'd go, rockville Center. Boy, have I been drunk there. A bunch of. Also, there was something in here. Oh, yeah. A school. Imagine. It's just so funny. There's a school named Elon. So you're like. They play Elon next. You're like, well, that's where he's been. I was. Hadn't seen him in a while.

[D]

Right near me.

[B]

Just having the sweatshirt that says Elon in big letters, mean, like, this has existed for 200 years.

[A]

Apologies if this is. You said this. This is women's volleyball. In my mind, it's women's volleyball.

[B]

Women's. It is women's. That's their only volleyball team.

[A]

They're. They only have women's volleyball.

[B]

Yeah.

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The.

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The ig.

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Maybe that's what I was remembering.

[B]

Astro volleyball.

[A]

Maybe. When I was a sophomore, they got rid of men's volleyball. That's what it was. I was. And then when I graduated, they got rid of football.

[D]

That's what it was.

[A]

I'm always getting those two confused. Andrew, love you. Mean it. Thank you for your email. This is also housekeeping. Ryan Blaney won this weekend. I don't know if these mics pick up applause, but we are clapping. New Hampshire big. Is that a big NASCAR market?

[B]

They've been running it forever.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

I feel like anywhere where there is a track, there becomes NASCAR fans around it. Like, there's tracks in, like, Phoenix.

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If you build it, they will drive. That's right. And only in one direction. The second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. It was an emphatic victory for team Penske. I know we were all pulling for it. I know we were all watching. Just in case you are new here, um. He won, and he's our friend. All right, that's going to be it for housekeeping, and I'm going to. There's no yap. I don't have a yap for you today. Shout out Colin Kaepernick for the thing he did this week. Okay, we are going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back. We're going to talk about Major League Baseball the last week of the season. Why did I call it Major League Baseball? Find out after the break. Man, life can get packed, huh? Just so much stuff to do all the time. You got to clean the bathrooms, you gotta read the news, you gotta watch the sports. You gotta drop your kids off at school. Not me. But I'm sure that's something that takes up a lot of time. Life just gets in the way. Well, when life is full and time is tight, Instacart helps you stay on track. Instacart is more than a grocery app. It's a care company that works around your schedule. Get groceries and household essentials delivered in as fast as 30 minutes, whether you're hosting a barbecue or getting back from a trip or just juggling back to school chaos. It helps save so much time to open your phone and SC scroll through and pick out the things you need. That's why I love Instacart. Download the Instacart app and use code CASUITS20 to get $20 off your first order of $80 or more. That's code CASUITS20 to get twenty dollars off your first order of eighty dollars or more. Which is great because that means you can add that to the tip offer valid for a limited time, excludes restaurants and additional terms apply. I am so excited to be wearing fall clothes again. To be able to put on more than two articles of clothing and not sweat through it. Macy's Fall Fashion Guide is your one stop shop for the season's biggest curated by Macy's style experts. Think Weekend in the country, the new boho and statement luxury. For her that means romantic flowy dresses from cc, Sheer looks from Inc. Luxe leather by Donna Karan and Karl Lagerfeld and bold animal prints from Anne Klein, Steve Madden and more. And for him, Levi's bomber jackets, vintage inspired denim statement loafers and relaxed suiting from Hugo Boss and Michael Kors. Shop now@macy's.com or in store today. Fall is in full swing and it's the perfect time to refresh your wardrobe with pieces that feel as good as they look. Luckily, Quints makes easy to look polished, stay warm and save big without compromising on quality. Quint has all of the elevated essentials for fall. Think 100 Mongolian cashmere from $50 washable silk tops and shirts skirts because tops are shirts. So I think I meant to say skirts but you can wash them both and perfectly tailored denim all at prices that feel too good to be true. But they're not. They're true. They have this Mongolian cashmere fisherman crew neck sweater that I love. It's just like a staple to my fall wardrobe. It's like you know how you have like 80 sweater but you only like three of them? It's in my three so that's awesome. Keep it classic and cozy this fall with long lasting staples from quinte. Go to quince.comcasuals for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. That's Q U I N C E.comcasuals to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quints.comcasuals.

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Mobile.com Network okay, we're going to start off really quick. Monday Night Football. We'll talk about a little bit about Monday Night Football that happened. But for the most part, we're going to leave football for Thursday this week because we have an illustrious guest, a stunning guest in person. I'm so excited for this. We have Mina Kimes this week. So we're gonna do most of our football then because doing it without her and then doing it with her, we're just gonna. You're just gonna see how stupid we are without her. So instead, we're gonna just talk a little bit about the game that happened last night, and then we're gonna mostly get into other stuff. Okay? Okay, everybody deal? No, not you, of course. You know, it's the plan. Okay, so Monday Night Football, the Lions beat the Ravens 38 to 30. Those. Those Ravens and a primetime game, they really seem to struggle. You know, 3008 is not bad, but I think the pressure they got to Lamar was big. Brady, did you watch this game?

[B]

Yeah. Seven sacks. Like, Lamar Jackson is like trying to get a dog into a bathtub. Like he's slippery. Like he will get away from anything. I'm sorry, Does Merle take baths easily?

[A]

That doesn't feel good to me. I don't like that.

[C]

I think cats struggle more to get in a bathtub.

[A]

I didn't know you bathe cats.

[C]

I don't think people usually do, but sometimes people do.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

They don't like being wet anyways. Is Stavros okay?

[A]

Probably not, no. I haven't checked in. Ronnie. Sure.

[B]

Derek Henry fumbled again. It's like three games, three fumbles.

[A]

Listen, and I. And that would normally make me go like, wow, he must have a fumbling problem. I watched the pat. The pates this weekend, okay? And the pates had a fucking hard time holding onto the ball, which maybe this is that ball thing. Chris didn't you give us your book, your ball book report the other day about how the kickers now get to use their special balls? I feel like something's happened with the balls. Why is nobody holding on to these? But everybody's fumbling. I mean, we'll get into it, like I said with Mina, but even that. I know, Brady, it really pissed you off when Collinsworth was talking about that play, that what's his face. Patrick Mahomes had a play, a terrible pass, backwards pass behind the line of scrimmage that he then had to go for somebody else to fumble the ball. And Collinsworth was like, what a football.

[B]

Player I will usually. Like, I usually hate for Collinsworth goes too far. But in this time, like, Patrick Mahomes was in danger of getting sacked. He turned to his left and threw the ball directly into the ground backwards, creating a fumble out of nothing. And then Collinsworth starts effusively praising him for. Look at how he ran after the ball and dove on him like, yeah, you created this problem. Like, look how he set his own kitchen on fire and then put it out. Like, great job, Great fire safety.

[A]

You know whose playbook that is? Just saying. But I'm not saying. I think we save all the rest of this for Mina, as I'm looking at it, because she's. But maybe can somebody explain what's going on? To me, this is college football, I guess, with the Nebraska quarterback. Please. We were just talking about Patrick Mahomes. So it made me think of it. Dylan Raiola.

[B]

Is it Dylan Raiola? Yeah.

[A]

And this is. If you're new here, I'm not a huge college football fan, so this is. I need this decoded for me. But what I've seen and what I've interacted with is that he models his whole thing off of Patrick Mahomes in a way that people find kind of alarming. And now, here's my issue. On the Internet nowadays, you can't really tell when you're just stuck in an algorithm because you clicked on something once and you're now getting the worst of the worst of people going like, this guy's a real. And then you, like, come up for air and you go like, oh, this isn't really a big story at all. But I keep being served video of this guy doing what appears to be an alarming version of cosplay of a professional quarterback that he's not friends with, that he's not friends with.

[B]

It's like they know each other. Because Dylan Raiola, his dad was an NFL player. So he's kind of like, been in these circles, but he has the same haircut as Patrick Mahomes. He wears the same, like, big ski goggles, sunglasses. They wear the same jersey number. And like, the weirdest part, like, the single white female part, is that he does the same hand signals at the line of scrimmage as Patrick Mahomes and started doing the same, like, celebrations as Patrick Mahomes to the point that, like, you're. You're just. You're completely cosplaying this man in every sense. And then, like, the tipping point was this past week they played Michigan, and he had a great game. He had like 300 yards, three touchdowns. And Jenny Dell, the sideline reporter, was saying, shout out.

[A]

Jenny Dell. She used to be the Sox reporter.

[B]

Sorry, go ahead, Ness. And Jenny. Yeah, she says that she. She was like, I spoke to Dylan before the game, and Dylan said, I wish the comparisons to Patrick Mahomes would disappear. I have my own name. I'm proud of it. And I'm like, dude, you walked into this.

[A]

He has his own name, but he should be paying Patrick for his image and his likeness. I think in a world where you can monetize those things, I feel like he took some. He took one that existed already. Kind of weird. Has Patrick Mahomes said. I mean, you can't really come out and say, like, hey, guy, kind of weird. I think that would make you look pretty bad. But I searched for a quote on.

[B]

And Patrick Mahomes is like, when I was a kid, I used to look up to a rod. So I get that he has his idols and people he. He tries to emulate and, like, I guess that's the most you can do. Be like, it's an honor. Like, he'll. He's like, tweeted at him been like, hey, I see you, lil cuz when he has a big game or something.

[A]

Something.

[B]

But it's so strange, especially when like, like in two years or something, he could be in the NFL with Patrick Mahomes. So now are you still. Do you. Do you drop this at some point?

[A]

No, I hope he leans further into it. I hope he's like Austin Butler in Elvis and he starts doing the Kermit the Frog voice, like, just slowly becoming more like Patrick. And then Patrick Mahomes is. Just has no choice but to. Oh, I'd watch that. That sounds better than the movie him that everybody says is bad. Chris.

[C]

Oh, I just saw it this.

[A]

You did?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

How was it?

[C]

I'll give it a 3 5.

[A]

Okay. This is the movie Him. It's the Marlon Wayne's football movie that I saw a lot of people in the media talking about it like it's a CTE horror movie. And I feel like that might have done it a disservice because I do not think that's what the plot is. It seems like it's more like a. You would know, Isabella. Maybe I should let you do it. But it's like a. A guy who like, studies underneath. A protege.

[C]

Yeah, but the general, like, like horror theme, I guess you would say is more so like, cultural. Yeah, like, that's kind of what the.

[A]

And is that your type of horror? Does that speak to you on a spiritual level?

[C]

It doesn't speak to. I mean, I like movies that I've seen where there is cults involved. Like, like Midsummer. That was a good one. That's like culty, right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. This one. I think what happened is, I think the way that the movie was marketed kind of made people have certain level of expectations and that's why people are.

[A]

That happens. Yeah, that certainly happens. Did enough happen in the movie for you? I heard the big critique was it was like beautiful visuals, but plot wise, it sort of fell apart.

[C]

Yeah, that's how I felt. I was like, it was a good watch. Like, I didn't like, not enjoy my experience watching it. I thought it was interesting, but my main thing was like, I wanted more. That was my main thing.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. It's getting not great reviews. Marlon Wayans came out and said, like, please. It was actually a pretty good statement for what he wanted to say, whether or not I agree with him. But he said, like, look, I respect critics and I think what they do is really, really important. At the same time, they aren't you and you might like it. So just go see it.

[C]

Yeah, Like, I would still tell people to go see it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Did they play a football game at any point?

[A]

No chance.

[C]

A lot of it takes place in Marlon Wayans house and he's like, basically training under him.

[A]

Did you learn anything about football from it? Your head gets hit really hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We usually try to keep you from learning that until you're like, invested and then we go.

[C]

By the way, I'm not going to lie. There was a part of me when I was watching this, I was like, I know this is like a really. This is a horror movie. But a part of me was like, this makes me kind of not like football.

[A]

I know, I know. And. And. And we have to Move on from you saying that just because of the time of year that it is. And it's just we can't be bringing that type of. We have to stay up here. You know, we have to live up in this register. We can't really be down there, but in the off season, we can talk about.

[C]

Okay, yeah, yeah. So, so totally excited. Touchdown.

[A]

Touchdown. And then the only other story that I don't know that we would get to with Mina is, did you see the Jackson Dart Eli Manning story? Eli Manning obviously won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants and now is a. The funniest person in sports. I guess if you're going just based off where the money goes. Him and his brother, there's those two comedy. That comedy duo.

[B]

Three of them now. Cooper made it big.

[A]

That's right. Silly me. How could I forget? There's three darts, no Mannings. These are the Mannings. And actually there's Arch too, who had himself quite a weekend. I don't know if everybody saw that.

[C]

Gotcha.

[A]

He stood over that guy in the end zone. That guy went to Sam Houston. Okay. They were winning at that point, I believe 14, nothing. And Arch Manning, kid, who's been having a terrible season, flexes on this kid in the end zone, like. And then the team posts it and goes like, arch aura. And you're like, what are you guys doing? What are you doing? He had his first. Okay, game. Shh. Anyway, back to the other Manning, Eli Manning. This is his uncle, right? Eli's his uncle.

[B]

Yes. Arch is Cooper's kid.

[A]

That's right. Arches Cooper's kid. That's not a very. I don't know, a rhythm to that sentence. Anyway, Jackson Dart is the quarterback that the world that New York wants. Russell Wilson got booed this week. He had a very Russell Wilson game for the Giants. But not any of the good, just the bad parts, just the picks. It's a lot. But he. They want Jackson Dart to start. Jackson was asked, or they asked Eli about if Jackson Dart has, like, reached out and asked for advice at all because they had met. And he was like, I'm always here if you need anything. And he said the first time that he reached out, he said, hey, can you get me a reservation at 4 Charles tonight at 6:30?

[C]

I don't see why. Why not?

[A]

And I was like, that is very Isabella coded. She's like, great. That'd be super helpful. Can I have this?

[C]

And did he. I hope, I hope.

[A]

Did he get reserved? He said, that's the hardest reservation to get. In New York. And I said, no, no, no, that's not part of the deal. When I said, I'm happy to help out, I'm not doing that. I'm not your reservations guy. You have to earn the right to call and get your. I'm not doing that. This was on an episode of the Schrager Hour. Shout out Peter Schrager.

[B]

I don't like Eli backtracking into conditional offers.

[A]

Yeah, you said you'd help. You said you'd help. And what if this reservation at Fort Charles is what I need to lift my game up to the next level so that I can be out there bringing it for the New York Football Giants? I think this is exactly the disrespect I'd like. This is exactly the amount of disrespect I'd like Eli to be getting from the quarterbacks after him. It's perfect. To me, it's not actually disrespectful, but it's pretty disrespectful. It's like, hey, a guy who is. I'm not going to call Eli Manning legendary within the organization. I don't feel comfortable having this conversation as a Pates fan. Isabella, it was against us that they won both of their Super Bowls while we had Tom Brady. It should never have happened down a.

[B]

Bad rabbit hole of the Four Charles menu. Oh, man.

[A]

Why are you even looking at stuff like that, Brady? This is like trying on a dress way out of your budget.

[B]

That's. That's so true.

[A]

It's no reason for you to look at that. I don't even know what it is, so I can't even. There's no help I can offer. My celebrity is useless in this venue.

[B]

It is.

[A]

Isn't it just the best prime rib? Isn't that the. Isn't it a prime rib dip?

[B]

Pretty much. But then it photographs very, very well. Oh, boy.

[C]

So, I mean, so does a Big Mac. When I get that Big Mac, it doesn't quite look like that.

[A]

It doesn't hit my wallet the same that Big Mac, you know, it's a little cheaper, lower risk. Can we talk about baseball, please? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Please, can we talk about baseball? Isabella, what do you understand of the baseball playoffs?

[C]

Not much. All I know is that a bunch of teams are, like, trying to fight for the wild card and trees. Is that what you said?

[A]

Yes, absolutely correct. Do you know what that means? And do you want to know what that means? Like, do you want more clarity to that, or are you fine at the level that we're at.

[C]

I guess I just don't understand. Like, are you. Basically, is there a certain number of games you have to win?

[A]

Well, so let's do this. The. The league, Major League Baseball, right. Is split up into two. There's the American League and the National League. Yeah. And you know that.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Within each, there's three divisions. Okay. The East, Central, West.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Okay. So it's right across the country, East, Central, West. The winners of each of those divisions gets into the playoffs. That's three teams. Three teams. And then there's three more teams that are just the next three best within each league, regardless of their division. So it's like the winner of the east, winner of the Central, winner of the west, and then they rank everybody that wasn't the winner in order, and they pick the top three. Does that make sense?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So it's six teams from each. That's right. Brady, What I'm saying, you'd be fixing me if it wasn't three and three. And. And so everybody's kind of fighting for to either win their division or to get a better record than the teams. And there's like a bunch of tiebreakers that are really complicated that I won't get into. If you've won the same amount of games or whatever, it's really complicated. And you can look it up and go as deep on this as you want, but just on a basic level, they're all fighting for these last spots to try to have a better record than the next guy. So at this time of the season, you gotta win as much as you possibly can and don't, you know, don't lose. And you want the people that are also fighting for those same spots to be losing. So we're in the last week. This is right now. There's six games basically, left. We're in the last week of the season, and usually by now things are kind of settled or settling, at least in the National League, things are kind of a mess. Still. A lot of people are still fighting, and it's like very. At a very. It's shaping up to be very interesting week. Let's. I guess in the American League, these are the teams that are still in the mix. Okay, so if you're listening to this and you're a fan of a team, if I don't say their names here, we'll get to you. Cleveland Guardians, the Detroit Tigers, the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, the Seattle Mariners, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Houston Astros. Okay? Those are the teams that are like could potentially are fighting for. And then in the National League, the Milwaukee brewers, the St. Louis Cardinals. Still kind of technically, I guess, are they. I guess. I guess the Chicago Cubs, the. The Arizona Diamondbacks, the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Miami Marlins, Question mark. New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. Like it is. There's still. Some of those are pretty. You'd have to do a lot of things a certain way to get a lot of those teams in. But what's been very fascinating, what I want to talk about the most. Isabella, you know I hate the Astros.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

The Houston Astros.

[C]

I thought about getting you an Astro shirt once, and I was like, that's my. That's mean. Like, I caught myself. I was like, I'm not gonna do that.

[A]

Wow. Good. Good instincts or bad instincts? Good fix. I don't know what that was, but. Yeah, that wouldn't have been received positively.

[C]

I know, I know.

[A]

And so you've done the right thing. You know, I love the Mariners.

[C]

Oh, you do?

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Big dumper. I mean, I love the. Obviously, I'm married to the Red Sox, so looking outside of my marriage, I'm pretty fond of. I'm winking at the Mariners side piece. Well, the Phillies are technically my side piece. I guess the Mariners are like, you.

[C]

Know, the one that got away.

[A]

They're just. If anything were to happen, God forbid.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The Mariners have never won a World Series. They're like what the Red Sox used to be.

[A]

Yeah. And they just have really. Look, the reason I don't like the Astros is the reason I love the Mariners. Astros fans. There's. I'm sure there's good ones. I never interacted with any. They were the meanest to me when I worked in baseball, the Mariners fans. I'm sure there are bad ones. I never interacted with any. They were the most welcoming and the kindest and the most supportive to me. I also really liked their team. I like their colors, I like the city. I like their vibe. So I root for Seattle. They were behind Brady going into the weekend. They were tied to win their division, and the Mariners haven't won their division since 2001.

[B]

That makes sense.

[A]

It was like a long time ago. And so they're tied with the Astros. Right. Isabella. Going into the weekend, and they have a three game series against them. And the thing is, when you're trying to compete directly against a team in the standings, playing against them allows you to get the most space because otherwise it's like not only are they losing, you're Winning. It's like every time you win, the guy you need to lose is losing because you're playing against each other. You know what I'm saying? So you could, like, get. You could really create some space.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And they swept them. The Mariners swept the Astros in Houston. Ooh. Ooh. Sorry, guys. I needed a sip of water. It was delicious. Not the water, the games. Dumper. Your boy, big dumper. He broke. He tied Ken Griffey Jr. S record for home runs in a season and then broke it and then hit another home run. So he's now at, what, Brady, 58?

[B]

58. 58 home runs, four short of the American League record.

[A]

Crazy. And now they're having a conversation about whether or not he is AL mvp. Now, listen, I hate how much sports media talks about mvp. I think it's annoying. I think we talk about it for too long in every sport. I think we debate it out to the point where we treat it like the games. You don't have to watch them. It's just numbers on paper. But somebody called into fan service and asked me about it, saying, like, I think they. He should be mvp. And I was like, yeah, okay. And so then I started looking into it, and he should be mvp. If Cal Raleigh is not MVP this season, I feel like we're doing MVP wrong. Is that crazy?

[B]

It's. He's having the greatest season ever by a catcher, which is the hardest position to play in baseball. Like, nothing's even close.

[A]

Isabella. The catcher participates in every pitch he is catching. So it's like, if he's really good at his job, it's not. You're not thinking about the fact that he's there, but he's participating in every pitch. He's calling the game. He is. In some situations, they don't always. He's like. He's such an important part of the game that he isn't expected to be good at hitting. And he is. He's incredible at hitting. And I feel like when it comes to MVP discussions, I understand Aaron Judge is like a baseball cyborg, and I understand how valuable that is now. Great. That is now. Amazing. That is. When you think about this season, you should think about Cal Rawley. And I think that's the way we should treat an mvp. So that when people are going back and teaching their kids about, well, this was the year that this happened, and this was the year that this happened in order to give charm to the year. This is Cal Rawley's year, and there's no reason other than I'M seeing a lot of people throw around war, the stat. War, the metric. We've talked about this before, Isabella, and I won't ask you to remember because I don't like when people quiz me, but if you did, you have a good memory. But WAR is wins above replacement.

[C]

Replacement.

[A]

And it's basically an average player, statistically, how many more wins this guy will bring your team? And so it's an incredibly valuable stat for when discussing baseball. But when it comes to deciding who the most valuable player is, I. I don't think you can use a stat that uses a fake guy to compare him to the R of a replacement player is not a real person who has good days and bad days. It's a average. It's a statistically average, consistently average person, and that just doesn't exist. And so I think when it comes to value in terms of most valuable player, I just feel like that's a silly stat to lean on. I don't care about your war. I literally care about the value that you brought to the game. And, like, big dumper gets the people going.

[B]

Putting this in Chris terms, it's like Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture. Oh, like, no one's gonna remember this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You can't say that. This is, like, what we're Gonna Remember from 1999 in film, like Saving Private Ryan sitting right there. We're gonna look back and say Shakespeare in Love was MVP of this baseball season.

[A]

Yeah, I disagree. Yeah, I think he. I think it was Cal Raleigh.

[D]

There's a reason why the player that we've spoken the most about on this show so far this season is Carl.

[A]

That's right. He gets the people going. Another play. We've talked about quite a bit that I do want to bring up before we move on from this Astros Mariner series that happened this weekend that I watched every second of and that I love so much. And by the way, can we have a moment of silence, please, for something terrible that happened to me this weekend? I've talked a lot of about how I have this MLB TV account that I stumbled into that has no blackout restrictions and allows me to watch any game I want whenever I want, for free. It's gone now. I went to watch this game this weekend. Dan was there while it happened, and he. Before I really had fully accepted it, while I was still denying it, he put his hand on my back and said, I'm so sorry. And I was like, no, no, I'm just gonna log back in. I'm just gonna type in the password. And it's gonna be fine. And I typed in the password and it was like, your password has changed?

[B]

No, no.

[A]

So I'm locked out.

[C]

How did that even happen?

[A]

I just was. It had been three years. I've been using somebody else's dad's password account for three years. And I had been. There'd been a couple of times where it had like kicked me out and I was like, oh no. But I got back in. And then this was the time that it was like, no. So I paid money for it. And it has blackout restrictions. And I get it. That's the version everybody else has. I'm now with the. I get it. But to go from it being free and also unrestricted to now costing me. And I know it was on sale because they put it on sale for the. Right before the end of the season, but costing me money. And I can't watch.

[B]

You guys don't get it. I had to watch baseball like you people I know.

[A]

Ew. It was disgusting. Anyway, rest in peace to that account and to that password. I hope he just changed it to stan the man. 13. Victor Robles was the point of this. Remember at the beginning of the year in April, I was talking about watching a Giants game, a San Francisco Giants game, and a guy ran into the. Tried to make a catch, a stunning catch in right field and ran into the wall. Isabella. And they had to like take him out of the game right away. I don't remember that, but damn well I did. It happened. Check it up, check it. Go look it up. And it was amazing. And then. Okay, this one you'll remember. Do you remember when we talked about a guy who was in his rehab? He was going through his rehab. It's the same guy. Spoiler alert. And while he was in the minors, he threw his bat at a pitcher.

[C]

Oh yeah, I remember that because the.

[A]

Pitcher hit him with a pitch for the fifth. It was like the fifth time he'd been hit by a pitch in 15 at bat. So he was a little frustrated.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Victor Robles, that was in August. He was suspended for 10 games by the way, for that. He got it reduced to seven in late August. He was activated on Saturday in this series playing right field. He made the game winning catch, an incredible diving catch. Cal Raleigh said that from home plate. He just, he thought Julio was going to get it. Cuz it was to like right center. And he thought Julio was coming to get it. And he's like, oh damn, he's slowing up. He's not going to catch It. And then he just saw a flash of pink come flying in from the side, and it was Victor Robles. Cuz he has these like, I don't know, pink things on his. And maybe on his glove or on his whatever on his wrists. And he just went flying over and caught the ball. It was amazing. Incredible. The Mariners are incredible. They have incredible energy. I'm not gonna say any more than that. I'm with you guys. Please. Dear God.

[B]

Three games up, six to go.

[A]

Yeah, you hear that? Three games up. So after that, Isabella, now the Astros are three games back. The Astros then, though, are possible. They could have. They. Could you get in that wild card. We just talked about those other three spots for the people who don't win their division but still have a good record. But as of right now, which. There's still six games left in the season, but right now, they. They lose the tiebreaker with whoever they're tied with, which I believe is Cleveland.

[B]

Cleveland.

[A]

And so they wouldn't be making it into. It's possible they don't make it in. So they're fighting for their lives, those Houston Astros.

[B]

What are you going to do without Mattress Mack in the playoffs?

[A]

Mattress Mack. Enough about that fucking guy. It's just a guy who sells furniture in the Houston area, Isabella. And he uses the team as a way to show how much he gambles. Is that what it is?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

He makes these large bets and then has a PR guy who tells every news outlet. So they talk about Mattress Max selling mattresses.

[A]

It's the worst. Houston, culturally. Well, listen, they gave us Megan Thee Stallion. True. So I can't be. I can't really criticize them.

[B]

And Mike Jones.

[A]

Where's Beyonce from?

[B]

Also Houston, I think.

[C]

I believe he's also from Houston. Yeah.

[A]

So actually, culturally, we're indebted to them still, even with what the Astros fans are and the energy they bring to the world, we still somehow owe Houston because they gave us Beyonce and Megan Thee Stallion. That's fair. And I'm sure somebody else. That someone's yelling at their podcast right now.

[B]

Someone's yelling paul Wall at you right now.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And it's you. It's you. Let's call it what it is. Speaking of Cleveland, I have to say this. Jose Ramirez, one of my favorite players in the league, is 30. 30 again for the third time in his career. Amazing. Consistent. Terry Francona. When I got to meet Terry Francona, which was the. The best, but it was before I had to work a game that he was the manager of And I felt so embarrassed how much I just smiled at him the whole time. Because he is responsible for like my biggest sports joy in my life. And when I was leaving his office, I said, just so you know, you're responsible for the biggest sports joy of my life. And thank you so much for everything you did for the Red Sox. But he said that Jose Ramirez sees 90ft better than anybody in the league. He's just so fast on the base path. And his ability to run and his like, smarts on the like on the bases is one of his favorite things about him. And that he's so good at it. And it's so true and it's so underrated. And I just love Jose Ramirez and so shout out to him. They're making a push to win the AL Central. Cleveland all of a sudden, because Detroit, who had a 15 and a half game lead. Isabella. 15 and a half games. Which at that point, usually as a baseball fan you go like, we're not surmounting that lead. That is, we're not going to win. They are 15 and a half games ahead of us.

[C]

Yeah, that's a lot.

[A]

It's one game now they're only one game ahead because you know why?

[C]

Why?

[A]

Detroit started doing the Trump dance to celebrate when they would get hits. And they're one in nine since doing that. They've won one game and they've lost that.

[C]

That's their good luck charm.

[B]

You know, that dances in that goddamn dance is in Madden now.

[A]

It is. Are they calling it something else? Are they acting like it's something else?

[B]

Because what they don't name it, but like so dumb.

[A]

It's not even a good two giraffes. But important to note, Isabella, it's bad luck. They have been. They have started skidding into the postseason.

[C]

Oh, they're the ones that. They were up 15 and then. Okay, okay.

[A]

Yes, yes, yes. That's my fault. That was Detroit that has started doing that and ever since have gone like.

[D]

They'Ve pooped the bed like they just had a hundred nuggets.

[A]

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Rough poos. And she knows about rough poos. Speaking of rough poos, the Mets. I'm only bringing it up because the Nationals catch that game against the Nationals. Jacob Young made a hacky sack catch. Go look it up. Just search Jacob Young. It will be either the first or second thing that comes up because last night he did it again.

[C]

Did he?

[A]

Last night he did it again. He went to dive to catch a ball. I think it hit his glove and bounced up in the air. And then he caught it bare hand, with his other hand. The guy is bounced. I don't know what to tell you. He's got a bouncy body and the ball loves to. To bounce off of it and he catches it. An absolutely incredible thing. I've never seen anything like that. But it was against your Mets.

[C]

I know, and I saw the first one. I saw that.

[A]

Yeah. And what did you say? Because it was against your team, but still an amazing thing.

[C]

I don't know. I just was yelling and I don't know if I could say what I was yelling, but, like, I was just loud and I just didn't like it. Yeah, Hacky sacked a baseball.

[A]

It was pretty sick, though.

[C]

I know, but only. I only allow sick things on my team. I don't allow 16 sick things being done by other teams against my team. That's not allowed.

[A]

Fair enough. Whatever. Brady. The Mets, skidding, sliding.

[C]

Do we have a chance? I don't fully understand.

[B]

They have a chance in the way.

[A]

That is that dumb and dumber. When he's like, like. So you're saying there's a chance. It's like very. It's pretty. It's not what it should be for the amount of money that you guys are paying to your players, I guess is the way that you'd say it. You know, I don't need to know about all that. It shouldn't.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

That's none of my business. But it is a. It is really not. It's certainly not what people expected, and it's not what it looked like was going to happen this season. And it is currently what's happening. And that. That's very frustrating, as the Brits would say.

[B]

They're losing the. The tiebreaker. So they're tied with the Reds, but losing the time.

[A]

The Reds. Where did they come from?

[B]

Tito Magic.

[A]

Oh, yeah. It's Terry Francona. God damn. I keep forgetting Terry Francona back threads.

[B]

When I'm dating my wife in 2010, I sent her a picture of me and Tito from the winter meetings, and I'm pretty sure that landed the plane.

[A]

There's nothing Tito happen that's truly. He's a God.

[B]

But the. The Mets had like the best record in baseball through the middle of June, and now they have.

[C]

That's what I had heard. And all of a sudden, a few weeks ago, everyone was like, oop, sorry.

[B]

And even like Juan Soda is having the best year of his career. So it's not even. You point to him being a. Letdown no, you can't.

[C]

Who is. He's also 30. Who do I have to hate? Who do I have to.

[B]

Everybody else.

[A]

Who are they mostly mad at though? Right? Cuz I like him. I love Lindor. He's sweet. That. Did you see his wife?

[C]

No.

[A]

Doing the. She plays the trumpet. It couldn't be that. That can't be right. Violin. I'm way off. I think it's violin. Please don't use that. I said trumpet. It is violin. Okay. Thanks. I don't know what the fuck can you imagine with her cheeks blowing out? What a different clip it is actually. Leave this in. Whatever. She plays the violin and she. At the games. Well, she did the. They had her do the national anthem. This was how many days ago? Last week sometime. And you should find it. It's a clip of her doing it in him and his daughter. Their daughter, like, watching and like, they're so proud. It's so effing cute. Lindor's so cute. Their little family is so cute. Am I erasing a child? Is it just the one kid or they've got two? I'm sorry. I don't mean to.

[C]

I'm sorry. Other child. If you exist.

[A]

There's at least one little one. I don't.

[B]

Is it binary? Yes. No. There are children.

[A]

There's children. Childr eye. I feel like I was about to say something and now I've forgotten it. That's pretty much. That could be the working title of the podcast. That's what I was asking you. Who are they mad at? Because me and my Mets fan fan friend. Mets fan friend are in a fight. So I'm not up on the Mets fan lore. And I'm not sad they're not doing well.

[B]

They pick someone new constantly. Like they're mad at Francisco Alvarez for a while. They get mad at the manager for a while. They like their pitching's been hurt. But then they also, like, have all these young pitchers that have been great. Like. Like Nolan McLean has been awesome.

[A]

They tong tong there.

[B]

Brandon Sprott's there. Like, I don't know if there's one singular skin.

[C]

I was mad at this one guy during that same game. His last name is Siri. I don't like that. I don't know.

[A]

Jose Siri.

[C]

He was. He was pissing me off that game.

[A]

Why were you mad at Siri?

[C]

I don't even remember. But he was doing something where he wasn't catching the ball and was, like, moving around. He's. I don't know.

[A]

I love actually this is my favorite. My favorite is because I for so long hated Trot Nixon. That is a beloved name in Boston. Everybody loves Trot Nixon. Isabella. I. When I was younger, when I was like, first getting into baseball, I went to a game. Trot Nixon let a ball go right through his legs in right field. Like a ground ball. That I as, like, a budding softball player was like, I would have made that play. It was the only. It was one time, one mistake. And I went my whole childhood going, I hate Trot Nixon.

[C]

Yeah. Like, as I look back, I'm like, it may have happened only once during.

[A]

That game, but I don't like. I don't like him right now. Doesn't matter. And I love that it is like, whatever it was, you had a thing. And I think more people should. I love that. That's what this podcast is about.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Zooming in on the irrational reasons you hate somebody who might end up being universally beloved by your fan base. Yeah.

[C]

He may get my my love next week. I don't know.

[A]

We don't know. That's up to you, Siri, the ball's in your glove.

[B]

Stop triggering people's phones.

[A]

Yeah. For real. It's very disrespectful to be named that. I can't even on the radio. I use my laptop and I can't say the name of this company because it will trigger. She'll go like, can I help you? And I'm like, I'm on the radio, lady. I can't talk to you right now. Bot we're, you know, as usual, gonna not have enough time to talk about everything we want to talk about. So I just do want to say Clayton Kershaw retired. Announced his retirement. There was a big hubbub, hubba, hullabaloo. What other words that are fun like that about it being his last home regular season start being on Apple tv. I'm too close to this story to be rational on it. This happened when Aaron. Aaron Rodgers. When Aaron Judge was maybe gonna hit, I believe it was 61 that he was going to hit during our game that we had a Yankees game on Apple tv. And it got to the point where somebody contacted the attorney general, I believe, and she said something where it was like, this game should be available to all New Yorkers. It was. Apple TV was free that season. I'm almost positive I should fact check. But I'm pretty sure it was made available. It was just the fact that it wasn't the booth. And then we offered to the booth. One guy in Particular that he could come be in our booth to do the call. He declined it and didn't shut up about it. People were upset. And so I can't be rational. Brady, what did you see of this? Of these people saying these things? Things?

[B]

I mean, it's the same crowd that's like, you know, the games are in too many places and I want to see Kershaw because I. And I get that. Like, I think it's entirely rational. Like we, you know, it just, it sucks. It just happened to be on the schedule. It's not like Clayton picked this date specifically. It's not like Apple picked this game specifically. It was on the right on the calendar for a long time. I like that Clayton did it. When he did it, it was not like a year long retirement tour, which didn't really seem like his vibe. It was, I'm gonna give people a couple days advance, we'll make a little bit of a ceremony about it. You know, have this one start and then we'll go try to win a World Series and then I'll be out the door. And like not, you know, he made the decision now. Didn't wait till the off season. Make people think like, am I coming back? Am I not coming back? Because that's been the last couple years. Matthew Stafford was out there supporting him, which was adorable. His old high school teammate who's now the quarterback of the Los Angeles Ramsay. And they go way back and Matthew's out there and his dirty old Dodgers cap supporting the team, you know, had.

[A]

Just gotten out of the. He parked his de aging machine out in the parking lot and then walked in is what I heard. For Isabella Brady, if you could just very quickly, please, I beg, just like top line, sum up like Kershaw and what he meant to the game, like what he was known for, what was, what is, you know, some amongst.

[B]

Clayton Kershaw had the championship belt as probably the best pitcher in baseball for like undoubtedly six years. He had some injuries that never quite kept him on the field long enough. But when he was healthy, amazing. He most often, you know, unlike a lot of pitchers, he played his whole career with the Dodgers. And then the one thing that's going to ring true with you every year, massive charity ping pong tournament in la. Clayton Kershaw is like known to be the greatest ping pong player to ever play baseball.

[A]

It is funny in his game, the first hit he gave up was a home run right away. First batter, Helio Ramos hit a home run off of him in that game. Thought it was funny. I just thought it was funny. It was funny. Got it out of the way. But you're right, he handled it in a very Kershaw way. And Dan, my lovely fiance, handled it in a very Dan way, where I was like, we're gonna be watching Kershaw's last game. And he was like, I fucking hate that guy. And I was like, you know what? That's fair. It is exactly what Hershel worked so hard at to have created. If you're good at your job as a Dodger, a Giants fan hates you. And it happened, and I can prove it, and it's true. Um, also have to say shout out to my guy. My fave. Mike Trout hit his 400th career home run. Um, Mike Trout, Isabella, is somebody that you would have loved if you had gotten into baseball. A couple. I don't know, what is it now? 10, 15, 10, five years ago. Yeah. Just. We put so much on Mike Trout's shoulders. He was meant to be the face of baseball. He played for a crappy team who Shohei used to also play for, if you'll believe it. Yes, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Shout out to just California baseball teams and their identity crises like the Athletics. No city at all. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. All cities at once. He's so good. He never slipped up. I maybe, maybe I'm misremembering. There was never like a. Never made like a big public mistake. He never had like a big controversy of any type.

[B]

He's an Eagles fan.

[A]

He's. Well, yeah, but we try not to hold that against everybody. He's like so good on a bad team with one team forever. He suffered some injuries and I was so excited for him this season to come back and remind everybod who Mike Trout is. And he's been doing that. He hits his 400th home run and then the guy who caught it. All he wants is to have a catch with Trout on the field. And so they do. And I thought that was so sweet. I don't know. I. With the Phillies Karen of it all. And again, it wasn't the kid that like, asked for all this stuff or demanded this stuff, but remember, we were like, damn, they gave that kid, like he's gonna go to the World Series. He's got. I think he got a Winnebago from somebody. Like that kid got given a Punnebago. I have no idea. Turn it into an anti aging machine. I need someone to do me wrong publicly. It's just like the fact that they Everybody wants everything. Like a kid who got to interview somebody during the Little League World Series this year. Remember when they had the game where they go and they play it at. Where is it, Brady, when they do that?

[B]

Williamsport.

[A]

Williamsport. They had one of the Little League kids talking to one of the players during a game and he asked a question. And the question he asked was, can I have your bat? Can I have your batting gloves? Can I have your. He asked for something of his and it's like, look, I get it. That's culture now. But it was nice that this moment where he got to meet Mike Trout, the guy who caught the 300th horn run. And Trout was like, what do you want? And he was like, I just kind of want to have a catch with you. Having a catch with Mike Trout is the coolest thing you could possibly do to a certain subset of, like, age group of baseball fans. So we are all that guy today. It was just exciting and cute and sweet and I loved it.

[B]

Mike played bare hand too.

[A]

I know. It's like, get the night glove. Can we get him a glove? He's having a catch. It's not a pure catch if he doesn't have a glove.

[D]

One of my favorite Mike Trout things is when he went to topgolf and smacked a ball to the moon. Yeah, absolutely.

[A]

I don't think I've seen that.

[D]

You haven't seen that one. He just absolutely rips a top golf ball and it just. You just. Just see it ascend into the night sky and it just disappears. It's incredible.

[A]

Wild. Absolutely wild. Okay, WNBA update. First. Sad. The Valkyries eliminated.

[C]

Sorry.

[D]

At a 17 point lead. They were looking good.

[A]

I know. And they. You know what? I think that this season outperformed any and all expectations anybody had for the team and for the fan base that showed up and showed out at Valhalla every single week. There was that weird little snag that they couldn't have their postseason game in Valhalla and they still showed up at SAP Center. I know it's not that far away, but like the logistics of it, it's just like not the same. They looked good and it just wasn't enough. But Natalie Nakase, coach of the year, I love. We also had most improved player Veronica Burton. There's a lot to be proud of this season. I know that every other series went to three games, so it's kind of a bummer, but it. Shout out to the Valkyries. Man, what a season they put together, set attendance records, et cetera, et Cetera. So it's a great start, a very promising team and excited to see what they can do. Okay, so the links are through because they beat the Valkyries. Help me recap these other ones.

[D]

The Liberty Aces beat the Storm.

[A]

Yep, the Aces beat the Storm. So they are through.

[D]

Mercury beat the Liberty.

[A]

Mercury beat the Liberty. Not a good year for the Libs.

[D]

The dream.

[A]

Tough year.

[C]

Tough year to be a lamb.

[A]

Tough year for the Libs.

[B]

This is how Liberty dies.

[A]

This is a tough one. And then what was the last one? What did you just say?

[D]

Fever beat the dream.

[A]

Fever beat the dream. Fever dream. It's all been a fever dream. The Fever. I don't know what the hell is going on. They were the lower seed there. They don't have Caitlin Clark or Sophie Cunningham and they made it through. And then was this last night, two nights ago, they beat the Aces. They beat the Aces in the second round. And what, it's just one game? It's a five game series. Last round was three games. This is five. So there's plenty of time. Anything could happen. But this little underdog run that they appear to be on is still very much alive. The Aces came into the playoffs on a blank game winning streak. Streak 14, 13. They were on a crazy 17 since.

[B]

Like the middle of July since the.

[A]

Baby crazy winning streak and they didn't. They finally got a loss handed to them in their second game and then now they crazy. This is not. I would not have expected this at all, folks. Game two of the series is tonight at 9:30 Eastern on ESPN. So be sure to tune into that and see what happens while we're talking fever. Did you see Caitlin Clark was fined for her comment? I believe it was about this bench mob. It was an anti ref comment. We saw this earlier in the season that Sophie Cunningham was fined for. I think it was 500 for the first time. She said something on her podcast about the refs and then it elevated to a scary $1500. Professional athletes, these professional athletes. I saw Saquon, somebody got a fine this past week that was like, like $24,000. It was. Comparing the fines is almost the more stark way to look at the difference in salary. Because of course the fines should be commensurate to how much you're making. But if you can only fine your athletes $200. Caitlin Clark, Caitlin Clark, face of your league says something bad about the refs can give you what's in her pocket to get out of trouble is crazy. If that doesn't make you go, hey, I Think they should probably be paying these women more. I really don't know how to make the argument better to you. $200. Fine.

[C]

I will say, though, when I first saw it, I forgot that these were professional athletes. So to me, I was like, $200.

[A]

That's a lot for an Instagram. For an IG comment. Fuck. Did it make you think twice about the comments that you've been posting on Instagram, Isabella? Yeah.

[C]

I'm like, ooh, I shouldn't not. I don't want anyone to see that. I'm just kidding.

[A]

It's so funny. Yeah. 200 bucks for an Instagram comment. You're right. But then sometimes you see how much these influencers get paid per post.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And you're like, I'm sorry.

[C]

Crazy.

[A]

I'm sorry.

[C]

The money they get in their TikTok.

[A]

Fund or whatever, and then they use it on just a little purse. On a little purse their phone doesn't even fit into.

[C]

I know. Just holds their outfit.

[A]

They're just out here with like, this is my dream bridal purse. And it's got. It's. I could put a lip gloss in it.

[C]

One thing I could say, do not want to hold any. Anything on my wedding night.

[A]

No. I want a big ass sack.

[C]

Other than a fucking.

[A]

I want a gigantic sack I can toss under the table that has all the other stuff I'm gonna need that day in it. But I don't want to have a JanSport backpack. This is my bag. It cost $100,000 and it holds my lip gloss. I can't. Oh. There was that really awkward press conference with the Liberty where the players were asked if they want to have their coach fired in front of their coach.

[C]

Yeah, that was weird.

[A]

And Isabella, it made me think, do you want me to get r. Brady?

[C]

Okay.

[A]

What the. I was just wondering real quick before we go, did you want me to get rid of Brady?

[C]

I was saying. I was like, imagine. That's like if someone asked me, like, so, how do you feel about Brady? Should we fire him?

[A]

And. And I was just wondering.

[C]

No, we need Brady.

[D]

It's just some people are saying.

[A]

Some people are saying Brady.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

They're like, chance, get Brady out. Get Brady out. And I was just wondering, would you like me to do something? Hey, is this guy bothering you?

[C]

Justice for Brady.

[A]

And that's basically exactly how it went. Where they all went, no, she's great. We love her.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It is funny in sports how comfortable we are being. Like, fire them. And you're like, I don't know it's a tough time. It's tough out here. Speaking of which, the Storm did fire their head coach. Three days after being eliminated, they fired Noel Quinn. So now among the 13 WNBA head coaches, there are zero black women. We could that we could maybe stand to change that. I would like that to be different than it is. Two black men, one Japanese American woman. Shout out Natalie Nakase, but no black women. So just, you know, something to keep an eye on that maybe we should. And shout out to Noel Quinn. She did her best. And sorry, I don't know. What do you say after to transition out of a story where somebody got and so sorry to that Roll Tide. I think we should do Ryder cup on Thursday. The Ryder cup is coming up, guys. Get excited for it. I'm sure my dad is. Maybe on Thursday I'll call my dad and we'll have my dad preview the Ryder cup for all of us. I can't promise the information will be good, but I can promise it'll be entertaining. I'll call him and we'll get a recap. Not a recap, a preview. And if I can't get a hold of him because the guy's in a lot of leagues, he's a slippery guy, you know, he might have a tournament that night. Then we'll get him to do the recap. But either way, we'll get Mike Nolan, golf correspondent, launched here to do Ryder cup because we are running out of time. I did tease that we were gonna do Am I Too Old for that? So that's how we're gonna end this podcast before we fully end it, when Chris tells us what to watch this week. And he's gonna do that so fast. But here we are at Am I Too Old for that? Brady, I'm gonna let you run point on it because it's your segment. You love it so much. So am I. To. Do we have a sound? I don't even remember.

[B]

Well, did we pay the AI voice to do with this one? I can't remember if we paid.

[C]

Oh, she's right there in the corner. Katie, can you just ask her, am.

[A]

I too old for this?

[B]

That at 40 years old?

[D]

No way. Then you're gonna do oh, my back hurts.

[A]

That's what it went. But you have that saved somewhere, don't you?

[D]

I do.

[A]

My back hurts. Jesus Christ, Brady, can you start at.

[B]

40 years old, LeBron James recently doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on claiming that he predicted Kobe Bryant's 81 point game. Speaking with speedy Mormon elite. Speedy Mormon of complex. I'm telling you, every time I say something, everyone thinks it's a fucking lie. I got homies that was literally at the house with me when cobe was dropping 81.

[A]

I'm like, oh shit, can I say.

[B]

Yo, he might go for 80 tonight.

[A]

Brady reading a LeBron quote is my new favorite thing. I loved the way it's like you took the spice out of it somehow and made it. I love that. I'm into it. What?

[B]

More. More boiled chicken from LeBron. I got homies that was literally in my room. I lived in the house in Ohio at the time that's now torn down. We sat in a small room watching the game and I was like, oh shit. Kobe going for 80 tonight. LeBron making outrageous claims that he predicted things even at 40. Is he too old for that?

[A]

I. He is getting up there. Or maybe you age into this. This is a very old head thing to do. So I actually think this is. This is actually age appropriate from LeBron.

[B]

A lot of energy of Hulk Hogan claiming that Metallica asked him to play bass for them.

[A]

They're back. Too old for this. That was just.

[B]

58 year old man at Lycoming College is going viral for playing college football at his age this year.

[A]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 58.

[B]

More than four decades after graduating from Williamsport High School, Thomas Sillo is giving football another shot after quitting the high school team during his freshman year and getting involved with drugs and alcohol. Thomas is four years older than his own head coach and all three of his kids are older than any of his teammates.

[A]

What position does he play?

[B]

He is listed as 6 foot nothing, 200 and nothing, 227 pound defensive lineman on the team's roster.

[A]

Defensive lineman.

[B]

Hey, if Rudy was a defensive lineman then Thomas can be a defensive lineman.

[A]

58 year old defensive lineman at. I'm sorry, what school?

[B]

Lycoming.

[A]

Okay, Likeming is in.

[B]

Illinois.

[A]

It's right next to Creighton and that is in Pennsylvania.

[B]

It's in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

[A]

He's making fun of me. Isabella. He's being a bully. Oh, he's being a bully.

[C]

We may need to do something about him now.

[A]

Oh, that's absolutely insane. Sandy Brondello, first of all, can I just say shout out to Tomo for I assume beating his addiction issues that he was having. Congratulations to him for getting out of that and for getting into fighting shape at 58. But yes, you are too old for this. Defensive lineman. This is. I don't want to discourage you. This is. Now I'm feeling bad about the segment, but this is. I can't be saying we should all be 58 and playing college football. I don't know.

[B]

This sounds like a story that is great. Until.

[A]

Yeah, I don't want to see. It's like when I. And it's not the exact same Thomas, so don't take offense, please. But it's like when I watched Air Bud with Dan and Dan was like, imagine having to tackle the dog. Like how different the movie is the second the dog takes a really big hit and you're just like, ah, hip dysplasia runs in the breed. It's just a different movie. It's. I can't. It's not as fun of a watch when we're trying to take the pieces of the dog off the field in a huge keep. So. Right. It's like. I don't know about. I don't know about a 58 year old guy being a defensive lineman, but I. Again, what do I know? I love the idea of living your dream. I love getting out there and, and, and changing your life and taking advantage of the opportunities that you may have squandered away in the folly of your youth. Great. But it's scary. That scares me. So. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry. Sorry. But you are too old for this. Am I too old for this?

[B]

And the third one we may just rip through with no details because Tom Brady is bickering on Twitter with Dave Portnoy.

[A]

Light it on fire. What?

[C]

Okay.

[A]

What?

[B]

They are in a dispute over how much he's getting paid by the Saudi government to put his money. Oh, my God.

[A]

What is this story? Made in a lab to piss me off? What the fuck?

[B]

Dave claimed that Tom Brady is being paid $75 million.

[A]

From where? Where'd he get that from?

[B]

From the Saudi government.

[A]

No, no, no. The information.

[B]

Oh, from the set of government. This is what I was told.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And Tom. Tom Brady said, are we just picking numbers out of a hat and reporting them while we're breaking news, Elvis is doing the halftime show and Babe Ruth is going to sign some autographs. Also. I heard Dave prefers floppy pizza. Who cares about facts, right, bro?

[A]

I could punch that up. You really should have let me punch that up. That could have been so much fun. Funnier than that. Babe Ruth is signing autographs also. You show that you know that he has. He does his whole pizza. You gave him shine in this moment. Shouldn't have done that, but sorry, go ahead. I'm just. Just doing the thing that Tom Brady does for the team he owns, but not in a way that's. That needs to keep him from doing it for the teams he covers in a broadcast. Sorry, go ahead.

[B]

No, we don't need any more than that. Are they both too old for this?

[A]

Yeah, I. What? They're tweeting at each other. Does Tom Brady send his own tweet?

[B]

He's got a guy.

[A]

He must have a guy. The Brady Times sitting on the couch.

[C]

He'S like, yeah, tell aveportnoy this.

[A]

I don't even know that. Like all the social stuff that he does, I feel like is gotta be a team.

[B]

That's a very curated response.

[A]

He had that. Remember the Brady Times? Wasn't that what it was called? His little newspaper that he did there? His little newspaper that he did there for a while, A newspaper. It wasn't real, but it was just like a theme for how he would post on his. I don't know, I just think, yeah, everybody's too old for this. I hate this. I hate this. I didn't know this. I'm finding this out in real time and I. And I need to stay focused because we're already at two hours into the podcast. But yeah, you're too old. What. What is the answer then, Tom? How much are you being paid? Correct the record, you're. There's a good opportunity to say exactly how much you are being paid.

[B]

The weird thing is it could be 1 million, it could be 75. And I was gonna say it would surprise me.

[A]

Me. Well, here's the other thing is he might be offended cuz he's actually getting. He wouldn't do it for less than 200 million. Like it might be that he's actually getting paid a lot more or a lot less. I could see him being upset either way. So good, good. I feel good about it and it is everything. Yeah, that was. Am I too old for that? I don't know, you guys. I don't even remember what I'm trying to go for when. I don't know. Not that I'm doing the Voice live, but I'm just saying, I don't even know what that AI Voice is trying to do.

[D]

Just giving you some different takes, some alts.

[A]

It's lost its way. My back hurts. Chris, it's the end of the podcast. You gotta tell the people if they wanted to watch sports this week. What kind of sports? I didn't even talk about Bruce Pearl. I said I was gonna talk about Bruce Pearl at The top of the show, guys. Bruce Pearl retired. He was the head coach of Auburn basketball program. Turned that program around entirely. Also I turned around Tennessee's basketball program. Prior that they had been saying he's 65. They had said he was going to step down for a while. This is according to the athletic department. They knew this was coming. They had conducted a search of who would replace him as coach and they just happened to agree with him that the person who should take over the basketball program is his son. His son who started coaching basketball in 2017. That's when he took it up. He had only ever coached under his dad. This information is per Justin Rowland from Rivals. That's where I saw a tweet from him. His son's 38 years old. He was a medical sales rep right up until he started coaching in 2017.

[D]

Pathway.

[A]

Yeah. And so they, they picked him as the coach. Very convenient. So he got, he signed a. Concurrent with this announcement was the announcement he, his son has signed a five year deal to be the head coach of this team. I'm sure the buyout is, is low just given the fact that this isn't the. But they think this is going to be the guy. It had also been rumored that Bruce Pearl was going to retire in order to run for Senate. And when he announced that he was retiring, he said he's not going to run for Senate. So I think that's the big question mark left about this story is like, is this yet another one of those times where right before becoming a politician someone tells us a really big lie? We'll have to wait and see if he ends up doing it. And taking the seat that Tommy Tuberville had occupied, I believe is the exact same seat that he'd be going for, correct?

[B]

Yep. Yeah. Running for governor.

[A]

Cool. Everything's good and not broken. So that's, you know, always very interesting to see. Look, politically, I don't want to get into whatever, but like, if you're getting. If right now you go, I'm gonna get into politics, I go, like, why? What do you mean? You're looking at it and going, I want in on that. I can't imagine that that's. But anyway, his son takes over and just to point out, just because public record exists, I just wanted to say that when Stephen A. Had a take in 2024 about LeBron and nepotism and how LeBron, you know, Stephen A. Went pretty hard in that particular paint about the nepotism of LeBron getting his son Bronny on the Lakers Bruce Pearl retweeted it and said, preach. Stephen A. Smith. So I just find that really interesting. Really interesting. But again, he turned around that program there at Auburn. He created an Auburn basketball program that I'm sure people were very excited to root for right up until like the day he retired right before the season starts. So sorry to those players. I know they get money now, but I don't know there you could argue, I think we should argue, especially to the students that or the student athletes that there's more to playing than money. It's funny how quickly everybody goes, well, they get paid, so it doesn't really matter. They can transfer. Transferring is a pain in the ass. As somebody who didn't like the school she went to her freshman year and ended up staying the whole time. It's not just like super easy to transfer. So I don't know that happened. Did I cover it all? Moving does suck the most. Okay, so that's that story. Chris, if people want to watch sports this week, what the hell are they supposed to do?

[D]

Well, on Saturday, September 27th at 12:30am Eastern on FS2, they can watch the AFL Grand Final taking place between the Brisbane Lions and the Geelong Cats. Brisbane and the reigning champions or the Raymond Premiers as we call it in Australia of the AFL and Geelong, last one in 2022. So these are two franchises who have had a lot of success in recent years. So it should be a very fun and entertaining game. And it's right in the, right in the perfect time time zone for you, Katie. 12:30am Live football.

[A]

Oh, good. No, that's great. Perfect. I love that. Thank you.

[D]

You're welcome. Next one, women's rugby World cup final will take place between Canada and England Saturday, September 27, again at 11am Eastern. So once the AFL Grand Final finishes, get a quick nap in. Get a quick sleep in nap.

[A]

Wait, 12:30am Eastern is the night one, right?

[D]

Correct. So Friday night into Saturday morning.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

For the AFL Grand Final, 12:30, that'll finish probably around 3am so you can get a little bit.

[A]

This is actually perfect for my schedule. And then wake up. Perfect. Sorry, Keep going.

[D]

Wake up at 11 Eastern to watch Canada and England on Paramount plus and then also New Zealand and France will face off in the third place game in the rugby Women's World Cup.

[A]

Okay, what else?

[D]

And then the final thing we should all watch, Sunday, September 20th at 8:20pm Eastern, it's Sunday Night Football. Packers versus Cowboys, the Micah Parsons revenge game. It's going to be a lot of Fun Cowboys are giving up a whole lot of points, but Michael Parsons going to going to do some damage in this one, I think.

[A]

And also watch some baseball. If your team wasn't one of the ones we mentioned, that's still fighting for it. It is still kind of a fun energy the last week of the season because it's just like a yard sale. It's like the broadcasters are just telling you who's on like the last year of their deal and what moves need to be made in the off season to avoid this existing exact same miserable fate. It's like they know there's nothing else to. And so those are kind of fun energy. Plus, it's your last chance to see your team play baseball for a while and you're going to miss it. So go to a game or watch a baseball game for your team.

[B]

Did you see the Braves sign Charlie Morton today?

[A]

I did. I did see that.

[B]

Yeah. So Charlie Martin, who's like obviously going to retire now, he's like 40, going like he got signed for the last week of the season with the team that's out of it, but it's the team he started his career with like 15 years ago. It's adorable. He's going to make one last start for the Braves.

[A]

Yeah. So all the stuff Chris said, but also just watch a little bit of baseball of your baseball team, especially if they're going to be done. And Isabella, good luck. Thank you. Good luck with those Mets. And you know what, Good luck to those. You could be giving it back to me. I should be fueling. I should be giving you the information to taunt me back the socks. Who knows. Good luck.

[C]

Good luck to your team as well.

[A]

Thanks. Yeah.

[C]

Except when, whenever or if ever they play my team. No good luck for there.

[A]

Great. I love that. It would be late, but we'll get there. Okay. Okay, that's it for your Tuesday pod. Thank you guys so much for listening. This was a really fun one. If you want to get a hold of us, don't forget Casuals with Katie Nolan. Gmail.com 646-801-0043 is the voicemail on IG and Tik Tok. We are at Casuals, the podcast fan service, live noon to 1 Eastern every day on Monday through Friday on Mad Dog Radio, channel 82. 888. Maddog 6. You can call and talk to me live. That's all the stuff, right? I list all the stuff.

[D]

Sandy Brondella out in New York just part ways with coach after one year. After title.

[A]

Okay? And you know what that means. Brady's fired. Thank you all for listening. We'll talk about that on Thursday with Mina Kimes. We'll see you then. Love you, Mina. Bye.

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