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Brett
Yeah, that's where I was saying because they had that nickname and you're like he didn't have a nickname. It said Chandler the Jet Jones.
Trey Farrow
Chandler the Jet Jones is a San Jose State. He's the all time leading receiver for San Jose State. And I had a cup of coffee in the pros. Evidently he died in a car accident. He's 33. Chandler Jones that played for the Cardinals. So the news broke yesterday. It says Jon Jones brother Chandler Jones dies in car accident Former NFL star Chandler Jones dies in. Reckon it's a picture of Chandler Jones in this Cardinals thing. And I'm like, whoa, no, it's Chandler the Jet Jones had passed away. So I'm getting emails from People going, nobody's talking about Chandler Jones. It's a different Chandler Jones.
Brett
You thought I gave him a nickname.
Trey Farrow
I thought. Yeah. I thought your algorithm on your phone just hands out nicknames like, yeah, Brady's.
Brett
Chandler, the Jack Jones.
Trey Farrow
Like, nobody's ever called him that. That's not a thing. So what's sad about that is there's a dude named Chandler Jones who's dead, who played in the NFL. We as fans are like, oh, not the good one.
Brett
Oh, yeah, brush it off.
Trey Farrow
It's not a story. It's a car accident. Oh, I thought it was the good Chandler Jones anyway. And it just, you know, died. Like, it's almost like, oh, ESPN was probably like, yes, it's a big store. Oh, it's not that big. Cause nobody knows that guy. Just another dead person. Crazy. So you have to.
Brett
It's a bigger story. The confusion of the good Chandler Jones.
Trey Farrow
Yeah. And then for the poor guy's families, like, reading stories going, don't worry, the real Chandler Jones is still alive. Please shut up. Which is a real Chandler Jones. I just saw a story. It said, don't worry, NFL defensive end Chandler Jones is alive and well. Don't worry. That was a. That was a dumb, dead Chandler. Like, how horrible are we? Oh, a different Chandler Jones got run over by a car.
John Holmberg
Just having to explain that. No, I swear I'm alive.
Trey Farrow
Oh, his phone was ringing off the hook. Yeah. His patience is crazy. Oh, God, I was so worried for a second. I'm so glad the other Chandler Jones is dead. Horrible people. And also, I'm being sent more videos of Brett's horrible team making fun of Cattel Marte there. I didn't see the scene on the field where the team actually comes over and embraces him. What was this guy saying to Katel Marte yesterday that made him break down?
Brett
I needed Jim Gray there for an interview afterwards. Ask him what was said.
Trey Farrow
What actually just happened to you out there, that was terrifying. It's just awful. But, yeah, your team, Brett, again, you run the risk of going into Chicago south side in the first place, of either being shot, stabbed, or hearing at the very. The very best day you'll have on the south side of Chicago is somebody says something offensive. That's you're getting out of there pretty scot free and you're hanging around guaranteed rate field. You go into the White Sox ballpark, and Brett can tell you this. When you go buy it, it's loaded with arrows pointing down. Yep. The whole outside of it. Guaranteed bank rates logo is an arrow driving itself into the ground. It's just, it's. It's staircase arrow, too. In a lot of cases they have, the arrow goes terrible. It points straight down. That's their logo. So you go buy home of the White Sox and the Arrows, like, go to hell, and it's all over.
Brett
That's not for home values. Around the area.
Trey Farrow
It is. Oh, that too. Well, look, they've never even worried about that arrow pointing up over in that area. But, yeah, it's this strange, you know, thing. So you go to the south side of Chicago and you get out of there with just somebody saying terrible stuff to you.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Trey Farrow
Consider yourself lucky.
John Holmberg
Be thankful.
Trey Farrow
I still want to know this went.
Brett
Over and be, you know, made a man cry. Yeah.
Trey Farrow
And, you know, not to sound totally insensitive, but his mom died eight years ago. He's probably dealt with a good majority of it. Your mother, I would think your mother passed Four.
Brett
Four.
John Holmberg
Three were in the Super Bowl. What was that?
Trey Farrow
Well, that's a weird way to remember that.
John Holmberg
I do, because. Because the last time I talked to her, we were on our way to the super bowl party up at Stand Up Live.
Trey Farrow
Oh, my God.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Trey Farrow
That's.
John Holmberg
That's the last time I talked to her. That's how I always.
Trey Farrow
Three years ago. Yeah. And your father's a. Two thereabouts. Actually, just. Just about two years. Yeah. Just exactly right. Yeah. And both of you seem pretty okay with this being a real. Oh, sure. But I'm, I'm. But what would I. But I asked you this because I've not lost a parent. What would it take for me to say something as a stranger to you that would knock you into a emotional frenzy?
John Holmberg
Nothing at this point.
Trey Farrow
That's what I'm wondering. To me, what was this guy saying? But again, it's so horrible.
Brett
I mean, I, I. The fact he's got a lot more.
John Holmberg
Time than we did, too.
Brett
Car accident.
Trey Farrow
Yeah.
John Holmberg
It doesn't matter. It's death regardless.
Brett
I know.
Trey Farrow
And seven years passed. You're like, this is still awful. It's still emotional. It's still a terrible thing. But, you know, I've dealt with it. And, and that guy's a jerk, and this is awful and he should be removed and all that. But it's an.
John Holmberg
Thing, and it, you know, I remember Steve Kerr.
Trey Farrow
When was it ASU fans were making fun of his father, who had been killed as an ambassador to the Middle east somewhere, and he was taken hostage or some weird story happened.
Brett
Yeah.
Trey Farrow
And the ASU fans were chanting his Dad's name. Like, because U of A was so much better than asu. They had nothing and it was so classless and awful. I'm pretty sure it was Steve Kerr. It was one of them. Like. Anyway, it was a terrible story. I've never heard of a guy have a stranger yell from a distance, heckle him about his mother, and he dropped him to tears. What. What kind of verbal assault was given. This dude is maybe the worst person on the planet.
Brett
Sometimes that's just the combo of what else Maybe that was going on still week that day.
Trey Farrow
How did that dude know? I mean, it's a perfect storm. You know what I mean?
Brett
Thought, oh, I can do this. It won't get to him, but I'm gonna.
Trey Farrow
But he knew enough about Marte's life. Yeah, I didn't know Cattell. Marte's mother passed away in an accident, you know, and we deal with the.
Brett
Diamondbacks dropped the ball on that.
Trey Farrow
Yeah, they didn't. You know, it was driven by the other Chandler Jones. But the. Yeah, we didn't deal with it is. It is remarkable to think that that guy's Tory Lavello actually said he heard it, but he wouldn't repeat it. Oh, in the favor. Just email. I said I'm not saying what it was, but I can't imagine somebody again. Sticks and stones and it can hurt. I can't imagine breaking down emotionally from a stranger in the crowd yelling something horrible unless it was fresh. You know, Brett Favre played the day his dad died covered in tears, and it made so much sense not to say Cattel Marte was wrong for breaking down. Well, what did the dude say? It's the. It's the nuke. Verbal nuke.
John Holmberg
I. I don't know. I mean, if I think if it was still fresh and stuff, I don't know if I'd have been crying, I would have went up and you beat him up, right?
Trey Farrow
Yeah, I mean, that's.
John Holmberg
Yeah, you know, that's just me.
Trey Farrow
You. You react some other way of anger and whatever. Maybe he was so mad. Maybe Brett. He was so mad it looked like he was crying because he was filled with rage. And you know, your eyes fill up with tears and so you look. You look like he wasn't crying. He was losing his mind. But I. That.
Brett
But you said they. They.
Trey Farrow
Oh, they were constalling him in the field. They're hugging him and stuff. I don't know what was said now. Trump just text over. I believe he said the N word. Nuclear. I don't know what the other one is. Everybody's always saying there's another one. I don't know the N word. I know. Nuclear. Nuclear, yeah. Isn't that crazy, though? I've never seen anything like that. And that's. It's amazing. But, you know, was it the anniversary of her passing or something? I don't know anything about this. How did this guy know?
Brett
It's got to be something that connects to.
Trey Farrow
And to me, this has. This is a bigger story because to me, whoever's yelling knows him. Nobody knows, especially in Chicago.
Brett
Was he saying a series of stuff?
Trey Farrow
Had to. Not just. Not just one for five years. Well, here's the thing, though. Here's the thing is, outside of Arizona, and this is not even here too much, nobody pays attention to the Diamondbacks. They're one of those teams like the. Like the Rays, Kansas City, and you might hear about them every once in a while, but you can't name anybody out of Arizona. That's pretty much the rest of the United States. As far as their consideration of the Diamondbacks, super baseball fans can tell you. Corbin, Carroll, Catal, Marte, you know Corbin's heart now. You'll know Diamondbacks, but they have to be like Bob Costas level of baseball. Nobody outside of Arizona is familiar, and I'm not even familiar with Marte's situation personally. So to me, what was said at the stadium had to be a guy who knows him. It was personal. This is so much more than a rando just shouting something awful. This had to be somebody in the know. Had to be. And my. My first thought is, and this is just speculation, because that's my job, is that it's somebody involved in it, somebody who's got a piece of it. And they. And Marte knows. Oh, my God, that's the guy who blank, blank, blanked in that situation. Was he there? Was he part of it? Was. You know, he had to. You know, was he at the court hearing or whatever? There was. Because it was a. Evidently, it was a terrible accident. Was it, you know, a friend or a family member of the person who. It just. It's personal. Something so much more than just somebody shouting out crass crap, you know, was it. And somebody says it was. Yo mama jokes. All right, that, no, he's not. Nobody's gonna.
John Holmberg
And Crispr says, wait seven years.
Trey Farrow
Yeah, he's gotta get over that. Yeah, well, there is that. You got to deal with it. But, I mean, that's what makes you wonder what he said. And no, Brent Crandall, he did not yell your mama like a library she opened to the public. That's not. It wasn't a yo mama jab.
John Holmberg
Wilmer shows up there too with a mic.
Trey Farrow
Yo mama nicknamed my dick Lego cuz it's a choking hazard for her. Ouch. Damn. No, that didn't occur. That's not, it's not the time for that. No, I, I've never seen that before in my life. It's something. Something. Check out Homework's Morning Sickness podcast at.
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Trey Farrow
Wix, Homeberg's morning sickness, baseball or otherwise. I've never seen somebody that removed from something still kind of falling apart by it. Yeah, and like you do have to move on and get over it to where nothing bothers you but my goodness, that is.
John Holmberg
Or you go up and beat the guy's ass.
Trey Farrow
Or that that's. I mean best not find out who that is because I think Catal Marte might have justification.
John Holmberg
This guy said it was she died In a car accident. No details if it was a DUI or something. Betty said something along those lines.
Trey Farrow
Yeah. This guy says not to be a bigot like Brett, but it didn't have to be spoken in Spanish. Isn't he. Does he speak English? I don't think. And that's another thing I don't know. Does Catal Marte. He speaks English. I don't think he's. I think. I don't know. It's hard because so many guys on baseball teams speak English or speak Spanish.
John Holmberg
Then this guy says, I sell. I smell Jesse Smollett incident here.
Trey Farrow
Fake guys. Watch this. I'm going to openly weep and blame a White Sox fan. If you're going to do that, you do it at a Dodgers.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Or Yankees.
Trey Farrow
You don't do it against the White Sox.
Brett
Hundred dollars to a guy gets a guy remove moved.
Trey Farrow
Who pulls it off?
Brett
500 bucks. Thousand bucks.
Trey Farrow
So you think there was a dugout?
Brett
Oh, I did.
Trey Farrow
All right. Pick a guy in the crowd and let's see if we can get him kicked out. Dinger. Dinger. Wait a minute. I heard what he said.
John Holmberg
Everybody's jumping on me too. It's like I wasn't me.
Trey Farrow
I was here. No, you're a White Sox fan.
John Holmberg
I was famous.
Trey Farrow
It's the same as when a man is raped and he starts laughing.
John Holmberg
He was on your team.
Trey Farrow
Yep. And I didn't watch. I know, but all my still watching it. Yeah, but. Because they didn't support them.
John Holmberg
But they. They took him onto the team.
Trey Farrow
I agree. That's a tough one for me. It's a tough one.
John Holmberg
I know. Oh, and then here comes all the yo mama jokes.
Trey Farrow
I'm not listening anymore. Yo mama jokes. This is not the time for that. Although some are hilarious.
John Holmberg
That's a good one, Gary.
Trey Farrow
Anyway. Yeah. Brady's theory holds the most water to me that the team made a bet to go get a guy kicked out. Katel, you're the. In the fifth inning. It's your inning to try to get that guy removed. Well, he just starts crying. It's like tell can cry on command because I don't know a man. Again, it sounds terrible, but I don't know a man who is seven years removed from his. From a. From a death in his family that a stranger can fire that up.
Brett
Now on the other side of it, if it was found out something like that happen. How big of a fine? What kind of suspension?
Trey Farrow
For who? Oh, if they find out that that's what he's saying. If he finds out that the team's betting on getting fans removed with like, like shenanigans.
Brett
A deal like that.
Trey Farrow
Okay, it is far fetched, but it makes some sense because I don't know.
Brett
They would have to do some kind of punishment.
Trey Farrow
Your mom is so fat, her blood type is ragu. Wouldn't make anyone cry. Now, maybe Brett, if you said your mama. I'm glad she's not with us anymore because her sauce tastes like Ragu. That's it. It gets him right now. He's not.
John Holmberg
He's reacting, but that's fight worthy. That's not crazy.
Trey Farrow
It's crazy crazy. But yeah, I. And you know what? The Angel Reese. Now you bring up the idea that it's fake. Angel Reese tried it in Indiana when things weren't going well and she wanted to a heckler who was getting under skin. She immediately said, they're throwing out racial slurs.
Brett
Made 10 grand that night.
Trey Farrow
Yeah, maybe. She basically was like, this guy's getting under my skin, so I'm gonna get him back. She said, he said racial slurs. And she put. And then they did an investigation and nobody on her team. The other team in the crowd supported what she said. The WNBA comes back and says, that didn't happen through our investigation. I don't think you heard the right thing. And she goes, okay. She just wanted to cause a stink to get the.
Brett
So they had to verify that this guy was saying this, like, by other people in the standstill.
Trey Farrow
And that's the thing.
Brett
Yeah, he's the guy saying it.
Trey Farrow
Cause you remember when Angel Reese said that people were calling her racial slurs? I'm like, they just stopped the game. Like, the people in the crowd wouldn't tolerate that. Like, I know for a fact that, you know, you can. I'll tolerate a lot of, like, yelling, but if a dude starts doing that. Yeah, you're gonna get us all in trouble. I don't care that you say it. That's your life. But you're going to get me in trouble for associating near you. Like the way Brady does the Ohio State rape. He associates with it. That's. You got to dismiss yourself from that the way Brett does to Chicago White Sox fans. Terrible human beings follow the things you guys like. And I have to put a stop that person.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Trey Farrow
In Brett's case, yours is different. You're right. Way to differentiate. You're right. But I'm just saying, like, I get where somebody's annoying you to the point where you just make up a lie about him. Get him booted because you got the power. But I've never seen somebody cry the.
John Holmberg
Kind of money they make. He should be a lot tougher than that.
Trey Farrow
Don't get out of his pocket. Money doesn't make you tough. Oh my God. This might mean your mom is so fat. God can't lift her spirit. Come on. I'd laugh at that. Anyway, it's terrible if you haven't seen the video yet. That's awful. Something also that's terrible again is the wnba. And we know that across the board should make everybody cry, but there is hope. Brady just found this thing on Instagram. I just looked into it. There's a 17, 18 year old girl in China who is 7ft 5 inches tall. And guess what she can't do. Dunk a basketball. How is it?
Brett
Well, we don't know.
Trey Farrow
I just watched her. She had 42 points and 25 rebounds in one game. And the whole time they're showing her. She's just reaching and kind of bouncing it off the backboard. She's me bounding like crazy. She's not the most coordinated per, but she's 7 5.
Brett
Her touch is pretty good.
Trey Farrow
Well, yeah. Cause she's basically putting a pea in a giant bucket. She's 7 5, a woman. She's not done growing. And if the WNBA has not got her in the league next week, they're idiots because I would buy tickets to that Barnum and Bailey's nightmare in a heartbeat.
Brett
I'm not sure if she. Well, she have to get permission. It is China and she's playing for the national team right now.
Trey Farrow
I don't know.
Brett
Would they shut that down?
Trey Farrow
Somebody go over there and crate that up and get it over here. Figure out how to get her here. Like give them a panda back and take her. Like, I don't know how it works with China, but we can work this out.
Brett
Trade a red panda.
Trey Farrow
Do we have one of those? They've got tons.
Brett
San Diego Zoo.
Trey Farrow
Whichever one, it's on low. Yeah, exactly. Give a couple back for her. They love it. Like, here's your two pandas. San Diego will be panda free. Give us the. Give us the girl. And plop her right down in the center of a Mystics Mercury game. And I'll be front row losing my mind at the absurdity of the bearded lady out there banging away on these chicks. And then just to hear the ladies of the WNBA scream about how unfair it is that somebody's 7 5. Well, that's not fair. Oh. Oh, I see you have no defense For. Because watching these girls in China bat at that ball, trying to get it and she's just holding it over her head. Then they're just swinging wildly.
Brett
The only thing that would be so frustrating is it's like when even when Shaq came into the league first, guys would bounce off and draw easy fouls.
Trey Farrow
He's huge. Well, the girls will fall. The one thing in the WNBA they don't have. The NBA has, is flopping. WNBA has no flopping. Those chicks are falling for real. They don't know. There's nothing about that. That's artificial European acting. They are falling down because gravity is a destructive force for them. They hate gravity over there in the wnba, it's. It's the third team on the field. Like they struggle with it.
Brett
You can't jump high enough to block a pass to her.
Trey Farrow
No, no, no. She can almost reach the rim. And none of them can reach the rim. So this is the first time I've ever said season tickets, please. If you bring over this behemoth thing.
Brett
Give us an ex exhibition game.
Trey Farrow
Oh, man. Crying, huh? Is this the indoctrination of women in baseball? Yes, it's a plan by the major leagues to have their players cry so we can get girl players in there. Because it's the dream of baseball to have women on the field. Yeah. I don't know what was said, but they say that the fan is banned from Guaranteed Rate Field. By the way, Ohio State just changed the name of its stadium to Guaranteed Rape Field. So that's really good. Your mama's got a glass eye with a fish in it. No. Who's crying at that? Hilarious. I kind of want to see it anyway. Okay, enough of the yo mama jokes. My emails are just pouring. Nobody did a. I was kidding when I said it was a yo mama joke. And then here we go. Is this one any good? He's still looking at. Yeah, some of them are really funny. This is a good one. Your mom is so nasty. She keeps ice in her pants to keep the crabs fresh. Okay, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. But it's not going to make you cry. Yeah. And again, banning somebody from a stadium, how?
John Holmberg
What do they got pictures of every game?
Trey Farrow
I mean. Yeah, how? I grow a mustache.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Trey Farrow
You know, then they gotta start ID and everybody you can they tried to ban. I'll never forget the funniest conversation I've ever had when I made fun of the Comic Con that was downtown. It's the ten year anniversary of that. Somebody sent me the Video of me interviewing the nerds and goofing around. And the Comic Con people were very angry when the video was posted that you made fun of all of us, your band. And I'm like, it's a costume party. How will you know? Like, everybody's gonna. I'm going tomorrow.
Brett
Suit up and we'll know.
Trey Farrow
You will have no idea. I'll go in there as Deadpool, and everybody will give me praise. I'll probably get in for free.
John Holmberg
Cameras.
Trey Farrow
You got nothing. You're banned from the costume party. Ah. How will I sneak into this? Okay, all right. I'm not reading that one either. No.
John Holmberg
I was so fat on both sides.
Trey Farrow
Of the family, that one got me. But would you cry? No. No.
Listener
So supposedly, how they they ban you from sporting events? Like the Suns banning people?
Trey Farrow
Well, Orange man, they put them in.
Listener
Jail because everything is digital. They ban your MLB account, and they ban your NBA ticket account.
Trey Farrow
That's a tough one to get around.
Listener
Just go get another one. Or you go with a friend, right?
Trey Farrow
Somebody else will hold the tickets.
John Holmberg
Yeah, Buy the tickets, man.
Trey Farrow
Yeah, you got. I got to have him on your phone because I'm. Technically, I'm banned. You know what the best thing would happen to me if I was living in Chicago and I was a Sox fan? Is that they said I couldn't go watch that monstrosity. And by the way, they're not that serious about it, because if you've seen a Sox game, a day game especially, they'll let anybody in there they need. There's nobody buying hot dogs. That place is empty.
Listener
Was it the Sox and Marlins earlier this year that had maybe 100 fans?
Trey Farrow
Yeah, nobody's going to that nonsense Anyway.
Brett
I heard MLB is going to start chipping you on the bands, so if you.
Trey Farrow
Oh, you inject a chip in your body. Yeah.
Brett
Well, alarm goes off.
Trey Farrow
That's right. It's in your Ozempic. You know, so that's really the hidden Microbots. Microbots you. And then you can't go into games. I know who you are.
John Holmberg
All those covet shots you guys got, you're gonna be banned now, right, Brad?
Trey Farrow
You're right. That's right. We're all getting banned from sporting events anyway, to tell Marte, I'm deeply sorry as a human being for you. That sounds awful, but I really need to know what that guy said, because it sounds like a gem.
John Holmberg
Your mama's so fat, it takes her two trips to haul ass.
Trey Farrow
Okay, that's a dumb one. I did like the last one. Both sides the family. Both sides of family, too. I like my Lego one. And I. I stole that, but I liked it a lot. We got ourselves a Rock wars coming up in just moments. Bring on that giant Chinese girl. And somebody apologize to Catal Marte immediately. It's 98, Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Episode: June 25, 2025 Host: John Holmberg Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
The episode opens with host John Holmberg briefly acknowledging the show's sponsorships before diving into the main topics. The primary focus centers around two major stories:
Trey Farrow initiates the conversation by addressing a confusion in recent news reports:
[01:01] Trey Farrow: "Former Arizona Cardinal Chandler Jones is alive and well. Different Chandler Jones, you."
He explains that a report mistakenly conveyed the death of a different individual named Chandler Jones, leading to widespread confusion among listeners. The mistake arose because the deceased Chandler Jones was a lesser-known San Jose State receiver, not the prominent NFL player.
Brett adds to the confusion by mentioning the incorrect nickname used in the reports:
[01:54] Brett: "Yeah, he didn't have a nickname. It said Chandler the Jet Jones."
Trey Farrow elaborates on the implications of this mistake:
[03:12] Trey Farrow: "It's somebody in the know. It has to be somebody involved in it, somebody who's got a piece of it."
This segment highlights the challenges of accurate reporting and the potential emotional distress caused by such mix-ups, especially for families involved.
The most significant portion of the episode revolves around an unfortunate incident where a White Sox fan heckled Diamondbacks player Cattel Marte about his deceased mother, leading to the fan's banishment from Guaranteed Rate Field.
Trey Farrow expresses disbelief and concern over the incident:
[04:18] Brett: "I needed Jim Gray there for an interview afterwards. Ask him what was said."
[04:23] Trey Farrow: "What actually just happened to you out there, that was terrifying. It's just awful."
He speculates on the nature of the harassment and its deep personal impact on Marte, who lost his mother eight years prior.
John Holmberg reflects on personal loss, making the conversation more poignant:
[06:01] Trey Farrow: "And both of you seem pretty okay with this being a real. Oh, sure. But I'm, I'm. But what would I. But I asked you this because I've not lost a parent. What would it take for me to say something as a stranger to you that would knock you into an emotional frenzy?"
Brett and Trey discuss the rarity of such intense emotional reactions from public interactions, emphasizing the personal nature of the attack:
[07:42] Brett: "Sometimes that's just the combo of what else Maybe that was going on still week that day."
[07:49] Trey Farrow: "How did that dude know? I mean, it's a perfect storm."
They theorize that the attacker might have personal connections or inside knowledge about Marte's life, making the verbal assault even more distressing.
Trey Farrow further explores the possible reasons behind the attack, questioning the motives and the extent of the fan's knowledge:
[10:08] Trey Farrow: "Had to. Not just. Not just one for five years."
He underscores the severity and personal vendetta implied by the incident, indicating that such harassment goes beyond typical fan interactions.
The conversation shifts to discuss emotional resilience in public figures dealing with personal tragedy. John Holmberg and Trey Farrow ponder the extent to which individuals can maintain composure in the face of public scrutiny and personal loss.
[06:28] John Holmberg: "Nothing at this point."
[09:56] Brett: "It's got to be something that connects to."
They debate whether Marte's reaction was genuine or a façade masking deeper emotional turmoil, considering the time elapsed since his mother's passing.
Transitioning from the heavy discussion, the hosts introduce a lighter yet intriguing topic: a 7'5" female basketball player in China who struggles to dunk despite her impressive height.
Trey Farrow expresses fascination and amusement at the player's inability to dunk:
[19:53] Brett: "Well, we don't know."
[19:54] Trey Farrow: "I just watched her. She had 42 points and 25 rebounds in one game. And the whole time they're showing her. She's just reaching and kind of bouncing it off the backboard. She's not the most coordinated per, but she's 7 5."
Brett and Trey engage in a humorous exchange about bringing her to the WNBA, highlighting the novelty and entertainment value she brings to the game despite her technical shortcomings.
[21:40] Trey Farrow: "She can almost reach the rim. And none of them can reach the rim. So this is the first time I've ever said season tickets, please."
The hosts interact with listeners, addressing questions about stadium bans and the logistics of enforcing them in a digital age. They touch upon the practicality and effectiveness of banning individuals from sporting events, considering modern technologies and ticketing systems.
[24:37] John Holmberg: "I was so fat on both sides."
[24:39] Trey Farrow: "Of the family, that one got me. But would you cry? No. No."
The episode wraps up with light-hearted banter and anticipation for upcoming segments, including a feature on the towering Chinese basketball player. The hosts reflect on the emotional weight of the topics discussed and segue into more entertaining content.
Trey Farrow on the Chandler Jones confusion:
[01:01] "Former Arizona Cardinal Chandler Jones is alive and well. Different Chandler Jones, you."
Discussion on the heckling incident:
[06:28] "Nothing at this point."
On the tall basketball player:
[19:54] "She's 7 5, a woman. She's not done growing. And if the WNBA has not got her in the league next week, they're idiots because I would buy tickets to that Barnum and Bailey's nightmare in a heartbeat."
Media Accuracy Matters: The confusion surrounding Chandler Jones' death underscores the critical need for accurate journalism to prevent misinformation and unnecessary distress.
Emotional Vulnerability of Athletes: The incident with Cattel Marte highlights the intense pressures athletes face and the profound impact of personal attacks, emphasizing the importance of mental health support in sports.
Diversity in Sports: The discussion about the exceptionally tall female basketball player brings attention to the diverse range of athletes and the unique challenges they may encounter, suggesting potential areas for improvement and inclusion in professional leagues.
Fan Behavior and Enforcement: The conversation sheds light on the complexities of managing fan behavior in large venues, especially in an era where digital ticketing and surveillance add layers of enforcement.
Overall, the episode blends serious discussions about personal loss and media responsibility with lighter topics, providing a comprehensive and engaging narrative for listeners.