TJ Oshie, Spurs Force A Game 7, Baseball and Presidents + Fyre Fest Of The Week

Summary

Pardon My Take [May 29, 2026]

Episode: TJ Oshie, Spurs Force A Game 7, Baseball and Presidents + Fyre Fest Of The Week

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Episode Overview

In this lively and varied episode of Pardon My Take, Big Cat and PFT Commenter are joined by NHL star TJ Oshie ("Captain America") for in-depth hockey talk and some tales from his career. The hosts dissect the hyper-toxic (yet endlessly entertaining) Spurs-Thunder NBA series heading to a turbulent Game 7, riff on the intersection of baseball statlines and obscure presidents, debate sports podcast drama, and, as always, wrap up with their "Fyre Fest of the Week" segment. There are memorable digressions—on pool maintenance, accidental pranks, and a deeply unserious investigation into podcast legend birthdays.

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Table of Contents

1. NBA: Spurs-Thunder, "The Most Toxic Series in NBA History"
2. Baseball & Presidents: Christopher Sanchez, Grover Cleveland, and Stat Weirdness
3. Hockey Talk: Playoffs Breakdown & Interview with TJ Oshie
4. Sports News Roundup: Soccer, Softball, Unusual Field Goals, and More
5. Fyre Fest of the Week: House Woes, Pool Woes, and PC Gaming Rants
6. Notable Quotes & Moments
7. Timestamps for Key Segments

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NBA: Spurs-Thunder, "The Most Toxic Series in NBA History"

[02:50–22:00]

Main Points & Tone:

• Toxic and entertaining—the hosts revel in how wild the discourse and animosity have gotten between Spurs and Thunder fans, players, and even random NBA-adjacent internet users.
• SGA (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) discourse: The hosts roast SGA’s flopping, Ty Lawson’s viral anti-Thunder tweet, and the general chaos of fan trolling in the series.
• Wembanyama's media silence post-Game 5 is dissected as both "lame" and "evidence that he cares so much about losing he can’t face the press."
• The hosts argue over whether the series is best described as “toxic” (PFT’s angle) or just “fun basketball beef” (Big Cat’s angle). Eventually, everyone admits it’s both.

Notable Quotes:

• "Fun and toxic are not mutually exclusive. The discourse is getting insane." — PFT Commenter (05:06)
• “There might be just a straight up fight.” — Big Cat (21:44)

Memorable Moment:

• Ty Lawson’s viral anti-Thunder tweet [04:00]; hosts read aloud and riff ("Four things I’d rather do than be a Thunder fan…”), underlining just how unhinged NBA Twitter has become.

Key Points:

• Thunder role players at home are on another level; blowouts more than close games.
• Debate around whether the Spurs perform better with Wembanyama off the floor in specific stretches.
• Running commentary about “tits behind every coach” (referring to viral courtside fan moments)—an only-on-PMT moment of extended, irreverent riffing.

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Baseball & Presidents: Christopher Sanchez, Grover Cleveland, and Stat Weirdness

[31:01–41:10, 52:43–54:00]

Main Points & Tone:

• The Phillies’ Christopher Sanchez is on a historic shutout run, breaking an ancient team record previously held by Grover Cleveland Alexander—not, as PFT jokes, the president, but the 1910s pitching legend.
• Spirals into classic PMT “stat banter,” debating whether Grover Cleveland was a president, a ballplayer, or both, and comparing 1800s baseball stats to random presidential trivia and cause-of-deaths.

Notable Quotes:

• “Every president in the 1800s was actually in Major League Baseball.” — PFT Commenter (31:27)
• “Oral [Hershiser] is German for liquor poop.” — Big Cat (34:36)

Memorable Moments:

• Big Cat and PFT prank Max by repeatedly derailing the Christopher Sanchez segment with increasingly arcane president/baseball crossovers, to Max’s visible frustration.
• Deep-dive into Grover Cleveland Alexander’s life, how he shares a name with a president, and weird presidential death trivia.

Key Points:

• Sanchez’s shutout streak: 44 2/3 innings, no runs, a feat unaccomplished in Phillies history since the 1800s.
• Oral Hershiser owns the real MLB record for consecutive shutout innings; Sanchez is chasing him.
• The bit turns into a running joke: “We have talked more about Grover Cleveland than Christopher Sanchez.”

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Hockey Talk: Playoffs Breakdown & Interview with TJ Oshie

[55:44–101:59]

Stanley Cup Playoff Rundown

• Vegas Golden Knights’ fast rise as an expansion franchise, playoffs success, and how playoff seeding is "screwing up" competitiveness.
• Carolina Hurricanes’ suffocating forecheck and how hard it is to come back on them.

Oshie Interview Highlights:

• Oshie recounts his golf ambitions now that he’s retired, especially at the fan-favorite American Century Championship.
• Playing through pain: Opens up about playing his last career playoff game with a broken hand; describes how far a hockey player will push for the team.
• Stanley Cup story-time: Keeps it real about Washington’s long-awaited Stanley Cup, team parties in Vegas, and open celebration with fans.
• Shootout legend: Gives a detailed, shot-by-shot oral history of his iconic 2014 Olympic shootout in Sochi ("I knew I was going five-hole the first one…").
• Deep hockey X’s and O’s: Oshie breaks down how to beat Carolina’s forecheck with short, close passes—so involved he jokes he needs a whiteboard.

Best Quotes:

• “I got to do something I loved and was super confident in.” — TJ Oshie on his Olympic shootout (80:31)
• “You want them to almost get overaggressive, use their aggression against themselves…” — PFT Commenter, Oshie on Carolina’s forecheck (71:39)
• “I just can’t get there an hour early… to be first in the pickup line at my kids’ school” (97:42)

Memorable Moments:

• Oshie on “shirt-chugging” through the belly after winning the Cup—“The Kevin Bacon hollow man.”
• TJ, asked for a truly dumb PMT debate, opines: “President Trump [is more well-known] than IShowSpeed.” (102:19)
• Riff about “who’s the real Caps Mount Rushmore?” and whether Oshie would put himself there.

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Sports News Roundup: Soccer, Softball, Unusual Field Goals, and More

[43:06–54:28, 104:57–118:38]

• U.S. soccer drama: Frustration (esp. from PFT) over rumors of the men’s national team coach (Pochettino) eyeing a job at AC Milan right before the World Cup. Is it normal for national coaches to line up jobs before the big tournament? Debate ensues.
  • “I just wish… pretend you love us a little bit longer.” (PFT, 51:50)
• Softball league antics: The PMT team laments their first loss, debates the merits of drinking “victory beers” only, and inverts classic team-sports superstitions about undefeated runs.
• Field goal post saga: PFT and Big Cat lobby, over Hank and Max’s protestations, to install an ACTUAL NFL field goal post from the Chargers’ practice facility in their office.
  • “We don’t ask what we’re gonna do with something. We just get it, and then figure out the rest.” (PFT, 119:38)
  • Debate on logistics (it’s 45 ft tall); field goal fever overruns common sense.
• Gift giving/pranking: Real and fake birthday presents for Max, including a custom “99 Meatballs” Eagles jersey and a Jason Werth banner, cap a segment about PMT’s notorious calendar and birthday confusion.

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Fyre Fest of the Week: House Woes, Pool Woes, PC Gaming Rants

[126:50–146:05]

House drama:

• Hank’s Swedish shades are stuck, leading to a fall, repair hell, and a grievance about how homeownership needs “a buffer” person to explain any custom features.

Pool drama:

• Big Cat details the struggles of being a new pool owner—learning to net, vacuum, keep up with chemicals, rescue wildlife (frogs/chipmunks), and balance shock for pee. “The pool is my baby.”

PC Gaming hell:

• Zach issues a PSA: “Don’t switch from console to PC” (143:14) after weeks of support emails, hardware failures, and technical frustration. Rant climaxes with: “You might have grown up wrong… that’s on your parents.”

Pokemon parent trouble:

• PFT, forced to learn Pokemon for his son, laments: “I just don’t have the brain capacity for it. I remember 90s wrestling, Grateful Dead setlists—my brain is full!” (138:49)
  • The PMT crew guides him: “Just start with the show.”
  • “How many are there?” “Thousands.” / “No, there’s really 151 before expansion era!”
  • Tangent into “who was a Rocket” and cartoon crushes (Jesse, Team Rocket. Ms. Frizzle.)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Every president in the 1800s was actually in Major League Baseball.” — PFT Commenter (31:27)
• “Fun and toxic are not mutually exclusive. The discourse is getting insane.” — PFT (05:06)
• “I would put myself up against anyone in the world in like a one-on-one shootout thing. Right. And so in that moment, it didn’t feel super big to me…” — TJ Oshie (80:31)
• “We don’t ask what we’re gonna do with something. We just get it, and then we figure out the rest.” — PFT (119:38)
• “Don’t switch from console to PC. If anybody’s cousin, kid, uncle tries to get you one… don’t do it.” — Zach (143:14)
• “I spent so many shots that day I had to be peeled off the middle of the street at like noon. … You saved my life, thank you.” — PFT, Oshie’s Olympic moment (81:23)
• “How many pokémon are there?” // “Thousands.” // “No, 151 before expansion era!” — Everyone (139:46)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• NBA “Toxic” Spurs-Thunder Series: 02:50–22:00
• Baseball & Presidents Chaos: 31:01–41:10 and 52:43–54:00
• Softball Team Loss / Beers / Field Goal Post: 104:57–118:38
• Soccer Coach Drama: 43:06–54:28
• TJ Oshie Interview: 55:44–101:59
  • Stanley Cup celebration: 88:55
  • Olympic shootout history: 83:08
• Fyre Fest of the Week: 126:50–146:05
  • Pool issues: 133:44
  • House/Swedish shades: 127:36
  • PC gaming warning: 143:14
  • Pokemon rant: 138:49

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Conclusion

This episode is classic “Pardon My Take”: sports, stupidity, and heart. The crew glories in the NBA’s internet-fueled chaos, celebrates oddball baseball stats and presidential trivia, and gets real with TJ Oshie about hockey life and post-career family rhythms—before diving into their own weekly disasters. Eminently listenable, endlessly quotable, and, as always, thoroughly unserious.

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For fans who missed it: Tune in especially to Oshie’s extended segments (55:44–101:59) for stories from a wounded playoff warrior and the inside scoop on the best party traditions in hockey.

Transcript

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think that's the best athlete in the world.

[Big Cat]

Biggest Phillies news of the day.

[PFT Commenter]

It might not be, but we'll get to all the Christopher Sanchez. Incredible. I've been told at gunpoint by Max that we have to lead with Christopher Sanchez. We're not going to lead with them, but we will talk about him.

[TJ Oshie]

Thank you.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Max]

Yeah, Martin might take.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, Martin. My take

[PFT Commenter]

part.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Part of My take. Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday, May 29th, and we are going to a game seven. Boys and girls, the most toxic series in the NBA is going seven. We're ready.

[Big Cat]

I don't know if I'd say toxic. I think it's.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, it's tough.

[Big Cat]

I think it's fun. This is good shit.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, it's toxic. It is to you. How could it not be toxic?

[Big Cat]

This is. It's just some good shit to watch. Like, this is fun. They're.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, but you said you didn't like watching sga.

[Big Cat]

I don't. I think. You know, I think when he. When he flops, it sucks ass.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. But this is t. Like the. Between the SGA discourse. Wemby's henchmen, Wemby not going to the. To do media after game five. The blowouts.

[Big Cat]

The.

[PFT Commenter]

The. The officiating. It's toxic. The fit. Everyone hates everyone. I love every second of it, but it is. It's toxic.

[Big Cat]

I think it's fun. I think that saying that sj, I love hating on SGA when he does that. I don't think that's. That's toxic to do. I do think that the series has been fun and that the series has been violent and they clearly don't like each other. And going back to the last game with Wimby ordering the code red and getting in there and saying foul and hard knock him on his ass. Jared McCain getting not one, but two blocking fouls drawn via his ass. Like twerking on people and the. The bad blood between Chet and Wimby. And then you go on to x.com the everything app, and you see guys that you didn't even think would weigh in like Ty Lawson with a banger tweet like this. Four things I'd rather do than be a Thunder fan. One, play hide and go seek with Jeffrey Dahmer and abandoned Chuck E. Cheese to be a Teemu Parachute tester. Three, stick my dick in a blender. Four, lick a porta Potty toilet seat at Coachella. Y' all are some losers. Just some bad blood. I love it.

[PFT Commenter]

And you're saying this isn't toxic?

[Big Cat]

I love.

[PFT Commenter]

That's the most toxic. Like, you could just admit that it. You could. You could agree with me one time saying that this is toxic.

[Big Cat]

That Ty Lawson tweet the whole thing.

[PFT Commenter]

That's hilarious. It's a great tweet, but it's okay to say it is toxic, I guess.

[Big Cat]

I don't I. I don't know what you mean by toxic.

[PFT Commenter]

Because we have people tweeting stuff like that. They want to put their dick in a blender than be a Thunder fan.

[Big Cat]

That's sports.

[PFT Commenter]

The definition of toxic. It's fun. Toxic and fun are not mutually exclusive. The, the discourse is getting insane to a point where Ty Lawson, who. I think he has like five DUIs, allegedly. Maybe not all five. I don't even know what the number is. But yeah, it's okay to be like, yeah, it's toxic.

[Big Cat]

I'm.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm saying I'm having fun. Yeah, it is toxic.

[Big Cat]

I think the, I think the discourse is wild. It's, it's, it's crazy and I'm glad that we get another game seven out of it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I mean it's. Yeah. I, I wish the games were actually a little closer. That's the other part. Like it, it hasn't been game one. Game one was incredible. And then it's just been punch counterpunched. You thought after game five it looked like Wemby was out of gas. I, and I will say, like, I, I like Wemby a lot. That's a lame ass move to not go and talk to the media. Especially when you want to be the face of the league and you will be the league and you will probably be the best player for a very long time. You got to just go and, and face the music when you have a bad game.

[Big Cat]

He's a monkey. He took a vow of silence.

[Hank]

That is a power move to be like, how are you going to respond to not doing media? I'm swear the monk outfit in.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, no, that, that, that was a good response. But not doing the media is lame.

[Hank]

If he wins game seven, he can get away with it.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Hank]

If he loses, it's going to be long off season.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but it's like one of like we make. We, we, we criticize Rory when he does this.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Like Rory wants to be the face of golf and then he just doesn't talk. And you're like, why aren't you talking? Like, I'm not a big. Like, you know, the, the journalists are like, how can you not talk to the media? We do your job. It's more just when you lose, you got to just face the music for. You can give non answers.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

It's just the act of being there and being like, yeah, I sucked.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. With Wimy, it's like he's a sore loser, which I think is good that he hates losing this much. That he's going to like respond in a, in a way that he'll probably regret later because it means that he cares at least during the game. Like he's definitely the game that, that he is going to act like a baby and throw a tantrum after it's over. In a way, I like the fact that he cares that much. But then after the game it's like the bare minimum. Just show up and just like you can give non answers, right. And you can be a dick at the podium and. And then everybody be like, okay, but you got. You do have to face the music.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. It's also if you're a role player, no one's going to be like, how did he not go? Yeah, you know, how. How did he not get up there and talk to the people? How did you know Carter Bryant not talk to the people after game five? No, but it's Wemby. He wants to be the. He's going to be the face of the league. Future fates of this league.

[Big Cat]

You know what's crazy is that the spurs have almost been better in the last couple games since they've won. They've almost been better when Wim's not on the court. They just kind of like they, they pour it on. I'm not saying that they're a better team without him. I'm saying that they've gone on some serious runs with Wimy on the bench. I don't know, they've exploited those minutes.

[Hank]

Sounds like you might be saying they're better. You're starting to. That's. Then. Then we can get going.

[Big Cat]

I'm not ready to unveil that take yet. That's. That's a bomb that I'm going to have to save in my back pocket for after they win like a couple championship.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

But the fact is that they did really well in terms of like they extended the lead in the first and third quarters tonight.

[PFT Commenter]

Tonight. I would say that's, that's definitely the case.

[Big Cat]

And in a, the last game that they won two games ago, they, they

[PFT Commenter]

had this game five. They were not. Luke Cornett was a minus and Wemby was a minus. Wemby was. Was bad as well, but. Yeah, no, they were not. They weren't better with him off the court. Game five.

[Big Cat]

No, I said this game and the last one that they won.

[PFT Commenter]

Got it.

[Big Cat]

Those two games, they were. They. I don't know. I'm not ready to say they were better with him off the court, but it's. If they're able to Extend the lead and not lose any ground at all with Wimby on the bench, then there's no chance in hell they're going to lose that game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Luke Cornett was. Yeah, I mean, that game, I think game four, Luke Cornett wasn't great either. But yes, tonight, yes, that, that did happen. They killed him. They. The Thunders didn't come out in the second half, I thought because it started the game. The spurs hit eight, eight threes in the first quarter. And it was like, okay, this isn't sustainable. The ball is just going in every single time they put it up. And you thought going into halftime, it's like, this is a, this is a close enough game where if they cool down a little bit, just went reverse. The Thunder just didn't score forever.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. In the third quarter, the spurs went on a 20 nothing run. The Thunder did not score for 7 minutes, 27 seconds of game clock 11 unanswered with women. Yama on the bench.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So I think it was tonight was when. Cause I, I know Game four. I'm pretty sure when they won game four, Lou Cornett was still like a minus. And Wemby was a significant plus in the plus minus. Like on court. They were just trying to survive those minutes of Wemby being off the court. But tonight, yes, tonight they were just. They were just better all around. And I, I don't know if it's. I. If you had to go gun to your head. I think the Thunder probably win game seven because it is like they, they have felt like they have met championship moments and maybe this was one of those situations where they're like, hey, we know that we can just go and win game seven. But you always, you never want to play with fire like that. When you're in a single game elimination against Victor Wembanyama, anything can happen. And they get a. They know they don't get an extra night off at Saturday night.

[Big Cat]

I think that the Thunder win and they win easily.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

In game seven.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I mean, it has been, this series has been blowouts.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

For the most part.

[Big Cat]

And we're seeing that a lot. It's like extended series, but the, the games themselves aren't particularly close.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And. And you had game five. I mean, Caruso was incredible again. That feels like whenever, whenever the Thunder at home, the, the role players are. Are just awesome. And. Yeah, it. Listen, I'm just happy we have something happening on the weekend because we had a. We were staring at no sports.

[Hank]

Whose line is it anyway? I haven't looked.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm gonna six under. Minus six. Five and a half. Four and a half. Five and a half. He's saying six.

[Hank]

Four and I should have gone for four and a half.

[PFT Commenter]

Damn it. Damn it. We also had the tip. We're hopefully this is not the last we'll see the tits, but it could be, because if the spurs get bounced, that's it.

[Big Cat]

They got. You gotta have tits in the finals. Like last year, we successfully bullied Adam Silver to putting the trophy on the court. Adam, can we get tits behind every coach?

[Hank]

Yeah, Matt. Msg.

[PFT Commenter]

There gotta be some tips.

[Memes]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Do you see these tits tonight? There's some amazing tits.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, those are some nice tits.

[Big Cat]

A lot of dudes getting horny about the tits online. Turns out they were. It was actually Max's butt crack that memes.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Big Cat]

Onto the cleavage.

[Max]

You guys are disgusting. Disgusting, the two of you.

[PFT Commenter]

Disgustingly funny.

[Big Cat]

We like to have fun online.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

No, you guys are sick.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, sick. Like, sick. Sick like a fox.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. Yeah.

[Max]

Oh, I'm sick like a fox.

[Big Cat]

Insert Kevin Durant with the oxygen going into his nose. Yeah, I'm sick.

[PFT Commenter]

No, they're like, sick. They're, like, ill. That's how funny their jokes are.

[Hank]

You looked at a picture of tits and said, you know, would make these tits better if they were Max's.

[Max]

Great point by Hank.

[Big Cat]

Whoa, that's not great.

[PFT Commenter]

Not a good point.

[Big Cat]

Not what?

[PFT Commenter]

Not a good point?

[Big Cat]

What? I memes saw the tits and he goes, boobs. And then he took a screenshot and he was going to post the boobs. And then, you know, obviously he had posted the Max Photoshop of the face onto the coach. And I was like, memes, you know, be funny if we did just a tit swap, a cleavage swap instead of the face swap. And instead of tits, it was butt crack. And then everybody that is like, oh, look how hot those tits are. We're like, actually, that's Max's butt crack that you just got horny to and probably jerked off to.

[PFT Commenter]

Listen, Pft. And memes. It happens to guys where this series has gone deep. They've stared at the same four breasts every single time the games have been in San Antonio. They got a little tired of staring at those breasts, and they said, let me just try a dude for a second. What's wrong with that?

[Big Cat]

It's a scale. You ever hear the Kinsey scale?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. They were just like, let's spice it up a little. And we'll just. We'll just go with Max's butt crack curves. The curves, man, I'm excited for game seven. Ah, the other news is Mitch Robinson has a broken pinky. Memes.

[TJ Oshie]

Are you.

[PFT Commenter]

How are you doing?

[Memes]

So this sucks. But. But it sucks if he doesn't play. Like, I. I wouldn't understand that. But if he does play and just tapes up, I don't think it affects his game at all.

[PFT Commenter]

Because he can't shoot.

[Memes]

Because he doesn't shoot. He doesn't dribble.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Memes]

All he does is play defense.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. What's he going to miss, some free throws?

[Memes]

Yeah. Just shoot it with your left hand.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

It is going to be.

[Memes]

It's going to affect Aliyu with his grip.

[PFT Commenter]

How did you say that?

[Big Cat]

The Aliyu.

[PFT Commenter]

The Aliyu, yeah. Muhammad Ali. Oop.

[Big Cat]

That's the country way to say the Aliyu.

[PFT Commenter]

What was that?

[Max]

You love to. Yeah. Pronounce things strangely, like, every now and then. That's, like, real bad.

[PFT Commenter]

That was crazy, dude. That's the Ollie. Oop.

[Hank]

Bob Burst playing fucking basketball. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Tony. Tony Hawks pro skater.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

You just. You just described a future dude. Perfect trick. The ollie hoop they've done. They've had to have done that.

[Big Cat]

Memes. I think knowing Mitchell Robinson, he's probably going to play through it. I don't think he's the kind of guy that would. He would. He would make fun of somebody else for missing a NBA Finals game with a broken pinky. I don't think he's going to miss this one. I think he's probably going to shoot it up. It might affect how he's able to grip the ball. The pinky is probably pretty important for that. But yeah, honestly, like, it's his shooting. Who cares if it affects his shooting, it might make it better and he'll still be able to play defense. They. The only thing that concerns me is the timing of this. Why they announced that he has a broken pinky finger right now as opposed to a couple days ago. So I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

Did it happen today?

[Big Cat]

I think it was in the game. No, it happened the second quarter.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay. So maybe he just waited to get some. Wait, he waited to get some X rays?

[Big Cat]

Maybe just like rub some grease on it, some. Some dirt. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That is kind of weird.

[Big Cat]

A couple days later, he's like, it's not healing. Coach.

[PFT Commenter]

They should have done the Sean Payton. They should have announced it right after the game. Yeah. Hey, listen, Mitchell Robinson. I know we just won the Easter Conference final. Mitchell Robinson, broken pinky.

[Big Cat]

It's slightly concerning given that I've heard. I've heard A couple Knicks fans around the office say that they've got the Wimby stopper and Mitchell Robinson, so I don't know what you think about that.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you. Does this injury change who you guys are rooting for in game seven? Memes and Zach?

[Memes]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. No.

[Max]

What if he doesn't play?

[Zach]

He's got to play. He's a competitor.

[Memes]

He will play at some capacity.

[Max]

Yeah, what if he doesn't?

[Memes]

He doesn't play. We're going small.

[Max]

But does that change who you want to play?

[PFT Commenter]

Yes, that's. No.

[Memes]

We're going small, and then we're playing magnet ball.

[PFT Commenter]

Right, but does it change who you want to play? If you have to go small against.

[Max]

It would be better to go.

[Memes]

Yeah, if we're going small, it's better to go against okc.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

The Thunder have Chet and. And Hartenstein, so Heartside's floater, by the way. It's nice.

[Big Cat]

He's so good. I feel like you're going to want Mitchell no matter who you play.

[Memes]

Yeah. But we got Hawk Porte.

[Big Cat]

Okay, let's talk about him.

[Memes]

He's good. Doesn't play much.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

He's ready to go. Fresh.

[Memes]

He's fresh.

[PFT Commenter]

Fresh.

[Memes]

But you can put OG at the 5. But that's. That's, like, worst case.

[PFT Commenter]

Listen, you're just focused on your villain over Wildcats.

[Memes]

Yeah. The greatest. The greatest basketball program.

[PFT Commenter]

So Memes and Memes have been fighting today because Memes is trying to basically take Villanova his. His school. Me and Max was like, at one point, I was sitting there. I'm.

[Max]

I'm good with memes.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I don't know. But he's also kind of. He's trying to. No.

[Max]

Well, you keep being like, no, this is my school.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Memes]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Right.

[Max]

This is incorrect.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I just take.

[Big Cat]

Is that actually. It proves that Jay Wright. Not that great of a coach.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

But then his argument was, well, Mike Brown had LeBron and LeBron and he never won with him, which made no sense.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it doesn't make sense.

[Memes]

No, that was different argument.

[Max]

No, that was. That was the argument.

[PFT Commenter]

I just heard a hand slap, and Max just said, why?

[Hank]

How did he never win with LeBron?

[PFT Commenter]

Remember, LeBron pushed him.

[Memes]

Yeah. LeBron didn't buy into the system.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I just heard a hand slap, and Max goes, I was a senior when they won the championship.

[Max]

And he was like, yeah, the 18 championship is mine. I was like. I was there. I was. I was on campus when they won. So it's. It's. It's literally mine.

[Big Cat]

But Anybody, any coach could have won with that lineup.

[Memes]

Max.

[Max]

What are we even. What are we even talking about?

[Memes]

There's so many NBA players on that roster. It's the best. It's the best college basketball roster of all time.

[Big Cat]

Agreed.

[PFT Commenter]

And they're mine. And they're beams.

[Big Cat]

They're all yours.

[Max]

You guys aren't. You guys aren't even doing it right.

[PFT Commenter]

I need you guys in Villanova's sweat sweaters like.

[Max]

Like, I'm. I'm in all memes. The amount of. I have bet on the jets every single year because of you.

[Memes]

We got the Jets. We got the villain of Wild.

[Big Cat]

Max. The thing about Memes, though, is, like, all that goes out the window once he starts winning.

[Max]

He.

[Big Cat]

He will not give a. About any support you gave him in the past. He's gonna be like, yeah, I'm giving him support.

[Max]

I'm like, yeah, let's. Let's. Let's hop on the Villanova bandwagon. Let's go. And he's like. He's like, no, your thing. That's mine.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's your favorite memory.

[Max]

It's mine.

[Memes]

Yeah, but you undersell it. They were so good.

[PFT Commenter]

Me Memes is a real fan here.

[Big Cat]

You give memes, like, a tiny bit of power.

[Max]

You didn't even watch. I watched every single game that. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever.

[Hank]

Whatever.

[Zach]

Whatever.

[PFT Commenter]

Also. Oh, back to my original point. I mean, that we have. Is a toxic series because we have the Underdog getting sued, cease and desisted by sga.

[Big Cat]

I agree with SGA on that.

[PFT Commenter]

I do, too. But that's toxic. Like, that we're at this point where underdog is making fake AI ads about SGA flopping and then cease and desisting. First of all, it's a lame move to cease and desist for anything. Like, for example, a juicy fart that did or did not happen. But, yeah, I SGA. Like, they are making money off SGA's nil and. And. And disparaging.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. If they're running a contest on their website, that's. That's making fun of his flopping, then, yeah, he's got every right to be like, no, you can't make money using images and. And highlights of me falling on the ground like an asshole.

[PFT Commenter]

You.

[Big Cat]

You can't make money off that. I can make money off that.

[PFT Commenter]

It's Streisand effect a little bit, but I think most people. But. But this is where we're at, where we have fake games.

[Big Cat]

What do we know about the. About the possible refs for game Seven. Like, if you're the Thunder, is there one guy that you're hoping to see? Is it brothers? Do we. Are they hoping that we get brothers out there? I know that he's got a little thing with. With Dort, I feel like brothers is the guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Brothers.

[Big Cat]

If you're Oklahoma City, you want brothers.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he had his. Yeah, his little. His little. Look at Dort the other night. That was. That was pretty funny.

[Big Cat]

Dort needs to step up. That's my step up of the. Of the game seven.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know how much he could step up, because Dort. The problem with Lou Dort, and I love Lou Dort. Dort, your chamber guy. Since day one, though, when Lou Dort makes his first three, you're in. You're in for a long night, because he's going to double check, triple check, quadruple check to see if he's Steph Curry that night, and he's not. But he's going to make sure that he finds out if he is or not.

[Big Cat]

He's going to foul. He's going to. He's going to do dirty. He's going to get his hair pulled. He's going to. He's going to be all over the screen. Yeah, I'm. I'm very excited to see. I. I think that there's going to be some fireworks in game seven. I hope it's a close game. I don't think that it will be, but I'm hoping that we get a good, quality game seven.

[PFT Commenter]

Also in game five, because we didn't talk about it. Jared McCain was very good. Started. And listen, there's been some funny discourse. I saw this from Miles Brown. He. He tweeted after the game, if McCain played for any other team, he'd be a lovable, scrappy dog. But now he's just Hitler's corgi talking about him playing on the Thunder. It's pretty good. Pretty good.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. He's kind of like a mascot.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he is, dude. He's strong. He's, like, got. He's got ass strength.

[Big Cat]

I'm telling you.

[PFT Commenter]

When he.

[Big Cat]

When he threw his ass backwards. Yeah, like, he drew that.

[PFT Commenter]

That was a little much.

[Big Cat]

Via twerking. That's. That's some next level.

[PFT Commenter]

That was an old. That was an old Chris Paul, James Harden move where they just get in front of the guy and then you stop and you're like, oh, that's a foul. Hit the brakes, body on body. But, yeah, it's getting physical. We had that. That foul on that. That Foul on SGA tonight. Tonight, where it was just like a forearm shiver.

[Big Cat]

It's. It's good. I mean, we got.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

There might be just a straight up fight.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We're so far gone. Jason McIntyre was like, oh, here goes SGA with his flopping again after he got just dead. Oh, it's great. It's good theater. It's Fun times. Game 7 is going to be great. And we just got to get Mitchell Robinson's pinky fixed. How.

[Max]

What?

[PFT Commenter]

What is it? What is it? This is such a weird time for you guys, Memes and Zach, where it's like, it's the extended rest. This is going perfectly. But you're on such a hot streak and now you're just not. Your team just doesn't play for 10 days. That's. That's kind of a bummer. You kind of want to see him play. Not that they would have moved it up. They would have started the finals the same time, no matter what, but you're probably like, hey, let's get this thing on. Yeah.

[Memes]

No, this is a extremely weird playoffs for me, personally, just because they're so dominant.

[PFT Commenter]

You guys have. You guys have more. More like weeks without basketball than with basketball.

[Zach]

The series are coming like bursts, like, boop series. Boop series. We're just waiting for the next one.

[PFT Commenter]

Cute as boop series. I like that.

[Hank]

It's week on, week off.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Okay. Let's talk some other sports stuff that's going on before we do that.

[Big Cat]

Jason McIntyre blocked me.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no.

[Big Cat]

When did that happen?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no.

[Big Cat]

What a disaster.

[Max]

This is probably sick of you tweeting about.

[Big Cat]

You probably saw your tits.

[PFT Commenter]

He jerked off.

[Big Cat]

He jerked off and he was like, oh, pft. Turned me g. Better block him so that doesn't happen.

[PFT Commenter]

I gotta get rid of this. I gotta hide all the evidence.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. It's all right. Hey, listen, cleavage is cleavage if it's

[PFT Commenter]

a boob or a butt.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

The Shay flopping again. Here we go. That was right after he got absolutely decked.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Because I tweeted out that clip and I said, what a terrible flop by SGA as a joke. But I think he might have been serious.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I think he was because he's been hard on the. There's been a lot of line in the sand.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Media members where, like, media members have been like, this is what I'm saying. And I'm never moving off of this.

[Big Cat]

He was being.

[PFT Commenter]

The truth is, somewhere in the middle,

[Big Cat]

I played essentially, I did the highlight of Oklahoma Drill.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

It was like, what A flop.

[PFT Commenter]

It's been a great series for people recording their TVs. Did you see the clip of the. I think it was just the angle, but it looked like Wemby was pulling Luke Dort's hair.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think he actually was.

[Big Cat]

No, he did. He got his shoulders.

[PFT Commenter]

I know he turned his. But this is. We're living in just basically a beautiful time for people to pull out their camera and, and, and take some quick film of their TV and being like, does this. Did this actually happen? Are we seeing this correctly?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you can make up.

[PFT Commenter]

It does kind of look like it.

[Big Cat]

I'll tell you this, if you actually did pull Loot Dort's hair, he would. He would not have taken it like that. No, he would have put a. He would have put his heel into your groin.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Memes]

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[PFT Commenter]

at the end of the last NBA game each day. See [e-mail] we have one of the entries to the Stanley cup final in the Vegas vgk. The Vegas Golden Knights. We're going to talk more hockey with TJ Oshi, but congrats to them. A dominant sweep of the Aves and the Golden Knights are it's pretty shocking the fact that they have been a franchise for nine years and this is their third trip to the Stanley cup final. They have won one, lost one. This is their third. They have also gone to the playoffs. In those nine years they have missed the playoffs one single time. It's a crazy run by them too because they've looked so good in the playoffs and they are a team that, you know, was injured, had struggled during the regular season, fired their coach. If they were in the east, they wouldn't have made the playoffs.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

In terms of points that they had. Yeah. They won 39 games in, in regulation this year and it's, it's pretty nuts.

[Big Cat]

So said more wins than them and they didn't make the playoffs.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

No. They had 95 points but the Caps had 95 points as well.

[Big Cat]

They know how to get it done in the playoffs and I my big takeaway from this. Yeah, the, the AVs had some bad injury luck. They, they looked like they were going to be a much better team. I agree with the people now that say that the seating in the playoffs and hockey screwed up. Yeah, I hate it. I don't, I don't like it. You get non competitive series. The later you get in the playoffs it should be the opposite. They're trying to do the thing where you have the, the constant rivalries where you get the same teams playing each other year after year to develop those storylines. That's going to happen if the teams are Good enough.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Big Cat]

You're going to get those rivalries if the teams are good enough and they'll happen later on the playoffs where they mean more. The fact that it's, it's reached this point where we're getting non competitive series in the conference finals on a pretty regular basis is very bad for this.

[PFT Commenter]

The Wild and Stars had to play in the first round. Yeah. And they were significantly better than the Knights in the regular season.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So. Yeah. And it's, but the Knights deserve a ton of credit. They're a model franchise. There's a, there's some revisionist history going around of people being like, well, the, the, the expansion draft was rigged for them. I, I, our good friend Liam Blutman, who is a die hard VGK guy, he's, he's shown me that like at the time of the expansion draft, that was not the take by anyone. Everyone was like, they fucked up this draft. The Knights are going to be bad. And so you can't just go back and be like, oh, well, it was rigged for him. No, they just made good deals at the time and people shit on them and turned out they built a good organization.

[Big Cat]

They had Flurry. Right. He was, he was, he was in that draft. Yeah. But no, at the time it was remarkable that they made the Stanley cup finals.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah. So they're, they're in. And then it looks like the Hurricanes

[Big Cat]

are gonna be in probably.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I don't see them giving up the series to the Canadiens. And so.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we're gonna have a conversation about the, the ratings disaster because it's two of these markets. I don't really care.

[Big Cat]

Don't care. Don't. I don't care about that. You think? I mean, the ratings would be huge if it was a Canadian team.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Playing Canadians.

[PFT Commenter]

Come. Come back.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

They don't look like, I think I, it feels like every single game they're getting outshot by like 40.

[Big Cat]

That's what happens. That's what happened. I'm very.

[PFT Commenter]

Gotta shoot the pot to get to score it.

[Big Cat]

I'm stupid when it comes to hockey. But I do know this, that when you play against the Hurricanes, if you get chances early in the game, you have to score early in the game and if you don't, then you're absolutely, if, if you, if you like hit the post twice in the first period and you have these chances that are right on the doorstep and you don't capitalize, you're, you're not going to win the game. You have to score early and Then you have a shot.

[PFT Commenter]

It looks. Max just gave a look because he's looking it up. It looks like a glitch. They were. They were outshot last night. They were outshot 44, 18. And then game three, they were outshot 39, 13. What was game two? Game two was.

[Max]

I think it was 2812.

[PFT Commenter]

It's crazy there. That's just the style they play. They're just on your ass. So frustrated.

[Max]

2612, and we're gonna.

[PFT Commenter]

We're gonna talk more with shots in

[Max]

a game I feel like is nothing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I mean, 39, 13 is crazy. So. Yeah, we're excited. I know.

[Max]

Nothing, by the way. I don't even know why I tried to comment on that.

[PFT Commenter]

No, it's okay. I just saw your face when you're looking at.

[Big Cat]

Flyered up.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he fired up. Hey, Max, you know you can comment on Christopher Sanchez.

[Max]

35 minutes is too far into this show for us to be talk. Talking about. Not talking about Christopher Sanchez, but. Yeah, he's a hell of a ball player. He's a hell of a ball player. He's going. And he's on a historic run right now.

[PFT Commenter]

He broke a record that was previously held by a president.

[Max]

Grover Cleveland.

[PFT Commenter]

Grover Cleveland Alexander.

[Max]

Same. Yeah. Same name. Basically the same guy.

[PFT Commenter]

But. But there was a lot of people, myself included, who saw the stat. Like, wait, was that a president?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, Every. Every president in the 1800s was actually in Major League Baseball.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. They know. They either played. They either were the captain of. Of a 12 and oh Michigan football team that beat the YMCA of Detroit or they played 15 years in. For. For Major League Baseball.

[Big Cat]

They played like four. Four years at Yale. But all those stats count as major league stats because there was no official Major League Baseball. Yeah, they kind of guys.

[PFT Commenter]

They played four years at. Of active duty, and then was the president.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Men were men. And then they died because they forgot to put on a coat in a light drizzle.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. But also, that's kind of some. If you're gonna wear a coat.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Was it. Who's the guy?

[Big Cat]

William Henry Harrison died in, like, 40 days.

[PFT Commenter]

His inauguration speech. Right. He's like, nah, it's not cold.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. He was like, I'm not a. I can't be a. In front of the people. They want to see me without my coat.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

And I'm gonna give the people what they want.

[PFT Commenter]

There also was. I saw the. I don't know why this popped up in my feed. This is. By the way, this all counts as

[Max]

Christopher Sanchez talk We're not talking anything about Christopher Sanchez. I'm waiting for you guys to stop with this.

[PFT Commenter]

There was a president that we. We exhumed.

[Big Cat]

We dug up his bones.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Because we thought he was poisoned. But it turns out he just. He ate too many cherries and drank too much milk.

[Big Cat]

Who was that? Was that Chester Arthur? Maybe one of those old.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know why I saw it, but they're like, nah, dude, he just. He just ate way too many cherries and too much milk.

[Big Cat]

I mean, jfk, Lead poisoning. Yeah, that's how he died, technically.

[Max]

So Christopher Sanchez, he's 44⅔ innings straight without giving up a run. That's a lot of. That's a lot of innings. He hasn't given up a run in the month of May. 0 runs. And in that span, he's gone 8 innings, 10k, 10k, 7 innings, 7k, 9 innings, 13k, 8 innings, 6k, 7 innings, 9ks. 5 straight games of going. Of going at least 7 innings while without giving up a run. He's the only person in the past, I think 100 years to go to go a full month without giving up a run while. While having five starts.

[Big Cat]

Grover Cleveland did it twice on two non consecutive occasions.

[Max]

That's not it. That's. That's not.

[TJ Oshie]

That's.

[Max]

That's incorrect. Okay, you're just making. You're just making things.

[PFT Commenter]

You said that to a point that I believe.

[Big Cat]

Well, I'm just doing. I'm doing historical president facts here. Before the T, man, he was the only guy to get elected twice, Right? The guy in between.

[Max]

Oh, you're talking. I don't. I didn't even know this guy was a president.

[PFT Commenter]

You're not saying. Alex.

[Max]

I didn't.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm not saying. Alexander.

[Max]

Grover.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[Max]

Grow. Grove.

[Big Cat]

Grove.

[Max]

Yeah, Shout out. Grove. Great record.

[PFT Commenter]

Last really long time, by the way. He wasn't a president. It.

[Max]

Stop talking about the president.

[PFT Commenter]

You aren't saying his full name. Grover Cleveland was a president. Grover Cleveland. Alexander was the ball player. And I do mean ball player. That's what they were back then.

[Zach]

Zachary Taylor was the exhume president.

[PFT Commenter]

Zachary Taylor.

[Big Cat]

Thank you.

[Max]

Shout out Christopher Sanchez. He's still on this historic run. There's a chance he breaks the whole record. So there's a chance he breaks the record.

[Big Cat]

That's Oral Hershiser's record.

[Max]

Correct. He's still a long way.

[Big Cat]

That is actually probably the best name in baseball history.

[PFT Commenter]

It's pretty damn good.

[Big Cat]

It's German for liquor poop.

[Max]

But he's I think he's two inning. Sanchez is two innings away from top five. And all the other guys played in, like the 18 hundreds.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Max]

So shout out Christopher Sanchez.

[Big Cat]

Shout out.

[PFT Commenter]

Shout out Christopher Sanchez. Also Grover Cleveland. He was the mayor of Buffalo.

[Max]

We've talked way more about Grover Cleveland than we have Christopher Sanchez.

[Big Cat]

Are you talking about the president?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Good for Buffalo. That's a win.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that's a.

[PFT Commenter]

Basically a Super bowl win for Buffalo.

[Big Cat]

Oh, they called Grover Cleveland Alexander was also known as Alexander the Great.

[Hank]

And Old Pete.

[Big Cat]

And Old Pete.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Old Pete.

[PFT Commenter]

That makes no sense.

[Big Cat]

How about that?

[Hank]

Oral was pitching in the 80s 90s.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

So Max just said it's not since, you know, the 1800s.

[PFT Commenter]

Well.

[Big Cat]

For the Phillies. For the Phillies and Phil and Fighting's history.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I may have got that wrong. Let me just say this real quick. Grover Cleveland, pretty attractive wife, which. That. That wasn't a guaranteed thing for presidents back then. There were some handsome first ladies back then. Francis Folsom Cleveland. Not bad.

[Big Cat]

Francis Folsom Cleveland.

[PFT Commenter]

Good job.

[Big Cat]

There's also. So Grover Cleveland. Alexander's mom was named Maggie Cootie. How about that?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay.

[Big Cat]

Shout out, Mags.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, Grover Cleveland died from cancer. I didn't know they had. They diagnosed cancer.

[Big Cat]

I think it's just like old. Like this guy's. He's got the consumption.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he was. I should have had all those cigars. What were you gonna say?

[Zach]

He was 50. She was 21. A little bit of a gap there for Grover.

[PFT Commenter]

That's a big time gap. I've tried so hard to do right. He's all right. That's what he. That was his last words. I've tried so hard to do right. Not bad last words.

[Big Cat]

It's kind of sad, though.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Like, I.

[PFT Commenter]

Like there's like a but. Maybe there's a but there that he just. He died before the but. But I'm. I'm really a fucking moron. And.

[Big Cat]

But it doesn't always work out that way.

[PFT Commenter]

I've tried so hard to do right. But I'm also a hell of a ballplayer. Over Cleveland speaking.

[Big Cat]

Alexander, speaking of presidents, did you know that Grover Cleveland Alexander was the Subject of a 1952 Biograph Biographical film called the Winning Team, where he was played by Ronald Reagan.

[PFT Commenter]

Wow.

[Big Cat]

Who would then go on to become president.

[PFT Commenter]

Wow.

[Big Cat]

Named for one US President and then portrayed by another. How about that?

[PFT Commenter]

And also, did you know that Lincoln's secretary was Kennedy and Kennedy. Max, how you think this was going to go when you demanded to have Christopher Sanchez.

[Big Cat]

I've got another Philly stack.

[Max]

You guys just don't like talking baseball.

[PFT Commenter]

You know what, Max, here. I got a question for you. So, Christopher San.

[Max]

Wait, did you. Was this. Was this a. Was this a play? Was this.

[PFT Commenter]

No, it actually wasn't. This is a true rift between the two of us.

[Max]

Where did you guys get all this information?

[PFT Commenter]

Well, we started looking it up, but

[Max]

it looks like you guys came prepared with Grover Cleveland stats.

[PFT Commenter]

I saw the cherries and milk thing for Zachary Taylor, like, a couple days ago. That stuck with me. I'm not going to do that combo ever again. Cherries and milk.

[Max]

I. I'm not gonna lie. I haven't paid attention to any of your actual Grover Cleveland.

[PFT Commenter]

Let me ask you a question here, Max. The Phillies, in the last two days, how many games they won, including today? Yeah.

[Max]

One.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Because the Cubs have actually won three in the last two days. They've won two baseball games. And also, we beat a pedophile. So how you like them Apples didn't play today.

[Big Cat]

You didn't see a pedophile today, did you.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you get a. Did you. Did you out a pedophile? Because the Cubs fan base did. Bleacher Jeff did what?

[Max]

White Talks Dave. That's somewhere.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, listen, our guy, White Sox Dave might have defended a pedophile for a minute before he knew that he was a pedophile. But, yeah, we had a. A similar Pickensburg Icy Vert where it was.

[Big Cat]

There's a press.

[PFT Commenter]

It was.

[TJ Oshie]

I don't.

[Max]

I feel like that's.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, the fact that there was a convicted pedophile involved was pretty.

[Max]

I know. I feel like that's. That's a disservice to Icy Icy Vert and Pickensburg. I don't think either of them are pedophile.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no. I'm saying in terms of Twitter fan bases being like, we're gonna meet up and fight. It was Bleacher Jeff and a White Sox fan planning on meeting at Wrigleyville Dogs to ha.

[Max]

To.

[PFT Commenter]

To fight. And then before that could happen, someone was like, hey, wait a second. Are you pedophile? And the guy was like, yeah, I'm not showing up.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So, yeah, that went for the cup.

[Max]

That guy should not.

[PFT Commenter]

No doubt. Yeah, Well, I think what he thought in his head, because Bleacher Jeff is a controversial figure in. In the Cubs community, which I have no problem with him because it's like one of those things that anytime you get a. Like a celebrity fan, it just. It tickles me. It's like Marlin's man and fall ball guy because he's. He's the one who did a GoFundMe to have people pay for his trip to Japan to see the Cubs play an opening day. And people were very upset about that. That's a situation where. Just close your eyes. You know what I mean? Don't donate. So people were. People don't. There's a lot of people who don't like bleacher Jeff. I think the pedophile was like, now's my time to strike. People are mad about this GoFundMe thing. They'll forget about the whole I'm a pedophile. Turns out people don't forget that.

[Big Cat]

That's the one that people latch on more so than the GoFundMe.

[PFT Commenter]

GoFundMe versus pedophilia.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I think that's always going to not go your way.

[Big Cat]

And I think the other guy deactivated, too, which is probably good. That guy probably shouldn't be online.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep, up.

[Big Cat]

You should probably stay off dial up, even just. Just log off for that guy. Max, I got another fun Philly fact for you. You want to do two. You want to do you.

[Max]

You led the show with this.

[Big Cat]

Two rounds of Philly facts we're weaving right now.

[PFT Commenter]

We're doing some idiot jazz.

[Max]

Yeah, no. And it's gonna come back making me look like an.

[Big Cat]

No, no. I already made boobs look like an. I'm not gonna do that to you. Too Fun Philly fact number two.

[TJ Oshie]

This is gonna be mean.

[Max]

It's gonna be mean.

[Big Cat]

No, it's not me at all. The Houston Astros threw a combined no hitter against the Tampa Bay Rays. How about that? What does that remind you of?

[Max]

Are you. I'm. Wait, do you not remember that we already did this?

[Big Cat]

Did we?

[PFT Commenter]

When was that show?

[Max]

Dude, you're getting old, man.

[PFT Commenter]

This is bad.

[Max]

This is bad.

[Big Cat]

This is my. This is my long day where I gotta wait.

[PFT Commenter]

I wish I could defend you here, dude.

[Big Cat]

Thursday, gotta wake up moves.

[PFT Commenter]

And we did the no hitter bit last show.

[Big Cat]

Thursdays. I gotta wake up. It's been a long day.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh.

[Big Cat]

Did it happen, though?

[PFT Commenter]

It. Yeah, it happened. It happened on. It happened on Monday while we were recording. And then we. We said it out loud. Oh, it was. And it wasn't. It wasn't against the Rays either. It was against the Rangers.

[Big Cat]

Oh, I thought it was against the race. Listen again.

[Max]

Sometimes you swing in a miss. Sometimes.

[PFT Commenter]

What time did you get up? What time did you wake up?

[Max]

7:30.

[Hank]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

You probably woke up Took a bath.

[Max]

Nah.

[Big Cat]

Spent three hours getting out of your apartment.

[Max]

Walk my dog.

[Big Cat]

Got married a few times.

[Max]

Got. Right.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Came to work, a couple bachelor parties.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Max]

A lot of wedding stuff.

[Big Cat]

I don't remember what happened on Monday. Monday was. That's not even a show day.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we. It has been a weird week.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I spent all. All of Tuesday being like, are we about to record? Oh, wait, we're not recording today. But, yeah, we did. We did. We did Breaking moves. We. We were. We were in these seats when it happened.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's completely gone.

[PFT Commenter]

Grover Cleveland, do you think he's got any, like. Like, great.

[Max]

All right, let's get on to the rest of the show.

[PFT Commenter]

He does get on the show.

[Zach]

Oh, it was a private life. They say he's an entrepreneur, but he.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, wait, he's. Are you serious?

[Big Cat]

He's not alive, is he?

[PFT Commenter]

No, no.

[Zach]

George Cleveland.

[PFT Commenter]

No, he said, I'm saying if he has any grandkids, we'd have him on the show.

[Zach]

He's got a descendant.

[PFT Commenter]

George.

[Zach]

Yeah, he's a grandson. George Cleveland.

[PFT Commenter]

That's a strong name.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Streams on kick.

[PFT Commenter]

Ben Cleveland, the offensive lineman. Wonder if he's got anything. George Cleveland. Oh, my God. He looks exactly like him. That's a guy you can trust.

[Big Cat]

That's the grandson of the president.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we got to get him on. George Cleveland.

[Big Cat]

I wonder. Yeah, we should. We should try to do that with as many different presidents, great, great grandchildren as possible.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not a lot, I don't think. Yeah, okay. I. Let's just jump around real quick. I had no problem with JJ McCarthy. I think they're trying to. They're trying to pin something on nine. That's not fair. If anyone missed it, there was a clip that was mashed up. KYLER Murray and J.J. mcCarthy both talking about each other. Kyler Murray said they were asked, like, what's it like? He's like, you know, I've been in the league. I'm a veteran. Just trying to help JJ McCarthy any way I can. Being a good teammate, all this stuff. Then they asked J.J. mcCarthy. He's like, it's like being in school. We're just sitting on opposite sides of the room. We don't really interact. What is he supposed to say? You brought in Kyler Murray? Cause you don't believe, like, he's not going to be like, yeah, I love having him here. The guy who will most likely take my job if things go bad.

[Big Cat]

I think if you listen to what they both said, it sounds like Kyler Murray gave the politically correct answer that quarterbacks are trained to answer with. And it sounds like JJ just kind of gave an honest answer.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

That made him sound like a dick compared to what Kyler said.

[PFT Commenter]

Exactly.

[Big Cat]

I think if you were to figure out what the actual truth is. I don't know that they're exact. I don't think that Kyler's, like, helping JJ out or, like, training him to take his job, because Kyler's looking at this as his opportunity to extend his career as well. So, yeah, it's. I. I think you would ideally like your quarterback to be more polished, like Kyler, like, the way that he answers in an ideal world.

[PFT Commenter]

But I have.

[Big Cat]

But also, that was JJ answering. That wasn't nine.

[PFT Commenter]

I also. I. This is where I have no problem with it, because I think we're all hypocritical when it comes to, like, how athletes talk, where we will be like, oh, yeah, J.J. mcCarthy, this is, like, bullshit. He's not being a good teammate. And then we get mad when athletes give cliche answers. That's not fair. He gave. He gave his honest answer. We should embrace that. We should be like, hey, thank you for your honest answer.

[Big Cat]

I think. I think JJ was also, just, like, describing physically what was happening. He's like, I'm a guy in a room, and he's a guy that's in the same room as me.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Big Cat]

Like, good luck proving that one incorrect. Right. Have fun with your fact check.

[PFT Commenter]

We are actually in the same room.

[Big Cat]

We're in the same room, and we study the same things. We play the same position. I'm nine, he's five nine, and we're going at it.

[PFT Commenter]

That's. That's generous.

[Big Cat]

Kyler does look a little itty bitty in the purple.

[PFT Commenter]

What's gonna happen with Josh Jacobs? That's a bad one.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's a bad one.

[PFT Commenter]

It's a bad one.

[Big Cat]

It's a bad one that the.

[PFT Commenter]

The charges are good. Yeah. The Chargers. So, like, I hate the Packers. The Chargers are bad. You can't really make jokes about these charges, like, if they're true. Bad. Really, really bad.

[Big Cat]

Mm.

[PFT Commenter]

It also, like, came out, and it felt like it was. There was a gap in. In the reporting. Did it not?

[Big Cat]

I don't know. It just seemed like it happened.

[PFT Commenter]

And then we found out, like, two

[Big Cat]

days later there were multiple neighbors that were reporting it, that it doesn't seem good.

[PFT Commenter]

It's bad. It's bad. Okay. Anything else before we get to TJ Oshi? What do we got?

[Big Cat]

I don't know. I don't want to say anything because we probably talked about it on, like, last Friday.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I got one for you. Pft. Is our coach leaving?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, but this is normal, so.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

This is crazy.

[Big Cat]

No, this is. This is how it happens.

[PFT Commenter]

Our US Coach is leaving.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. After the World Cup.

[PFT Commenter]

This happens to be the guy.

[Big Cat]

This happens, like, every time.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't. I. Can he. Can he wait? Can he wait till we compete in the World Cup?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Announce he's leaving. He's.

[Big Cat]

He did not announce that he's leaving.

[Hank]

It's a club.

[PFT Commenter]

But he's. So how do I know that he's leaving?

[Big Cat]

Well, he's open to taking other jobs and AC Milan is considering him.

[PFT Commenter]

Dude, we got the World cup in two weeks.

[Hank]

Does AC Milan play while the US World cup team plays? Why can't he do both?

[Big Cat]

He's not. He's not like, interviewing. He's not spending time with him.

[Max]

I. I was about to ask that same question.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, it just says, head coach met with representatives from AC Milan.

[Big Cat]

Okay, so why are you doing that?

[Max]

Like, Steve Kerr does warriors and US Basketball.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. But he's leaving. He's going to leave. We're about to play the World Cup. Like, we're about to play in the World Cup.

[Hank]

I mean, yeah, he should be game planning, right?

[PFT Commenter]

He's taking me. It'd be like Steve Kerr running a USA Basketball practice right before the NBA Finals. I mean, it'd be like not doing that.

[Big Cat]

An offensive and defensive coordinator for a Super bowl team is taking interviews during the week.

[PFT Commenter]

But he's a head coach.

[Big Cat]

He is a head coach.

[PFT Commenter]

That's not. That's not the same as an office.

[Hank]

And this is more than a team. This is your country, right?

[Big Cat]

Well, it's not his country. He's from Argentina.

[PFT Commenter]

So why the wait?

[Big Cat]

Because this is how it works. Like every other coach coaches in soccer, they leave after the World Cup. Most of them don't stick around, like, continuously, as I understand that there isn't one.

[PFT Commenter]

He can't wait.

[Hank]

US Coach that could coach this team.

[PFT Commenter]

He can't wait.

[Big Cat]

Oh, we've tried that, Hank, but you're

[PFT Commenter]

saying he can't wait.

[Max]

He.

[PFT Commenter]

He has to take these meetings now.

[Big Cat]

Now, I don't know when he took the meetings.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, it was reported that he took the meeting, like, yesterday.

[Big Cat]

Well, that's when the report came out. I don't think he was necessarily like, he's not flying overseas.

[PFT Commenter]

There we go. Roger Bennett agrees with me.

[Big Cat]

He might be taking phone calls.

[PFT Commenter]

Pochettino meeting with AC Milan is unfair to the US Team. Love that.

[Big Cat]

I think that this.

[PFT Commenter]

My instincts. Right.

[Big Cat]

I think that there's a lot of talk going. Like, the email thing was a bunch of, what do you want your coach to do? Like, there's no way that that conversation is going to go well, no matter what. But him sending an email versus, like, making a phone call where the guy's like, oh, that sucks. All right, thanks for calling me. I appreciate. Like, nobody cares about that. What people care about is once the games get started, getting these guys on the right foot, getting some momentum going. Every coach interviews to take other jobs after the World Cup.

[PFT Commenter]

These guys after the World Cup. Wrong. These. You just said after the World Cup. Not all the time, but you just said every coach interviews for jobs after the World Cup. If it was after the World Cup, I wouldn't care.

[Big Cat]

It depends on what openings there are. If there's an opening, like if. If. If Pep leaving or if AC Milan becomes open, those teams interview coaches as soon as they possibly.

[PFT Commenter]

I would like for him to maybe focus on the World Cup.

[Big Cat]

I don't know. I think it's.

[PFT Commenter]

He's supposed to be the guy. We all complained about. Burl Halter.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And said he's going to change. This Pochettino guy's gonna change everything. Can you just pretend you want the job for a little bit longer?

[Big Cat]

I think there's a lot of room to criticize Pochettino and what he's done, and then we'll see how the games end up going. I don't think that that's one of them.

[PFT Commenter]

He could just wait.

[Big Cat]

Wouldn't you rather have a coach that is, like, so good at coaching that AC Milan wants to hire him? I feel like that's a good.

[PFT Commenter]

Even. Good. They're not even the Italy. The Italy league is not even one of the best.

[Big Cat]

One of the best historical teams in the world.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But Italy. The league is down. If he was. If he was going for an epl, maybe. What are you gonna say, Hank?

[Hank]

This is our golden generation.

[Big Cat]

Correct. Yes.

[Hank]

Home World Cup. We've talked about it forever.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. Yeah. Our coach is from Argentina and he wants another job.

[Hank]

If we're gonna. If we're gonna win the whole thing, we're probably gonna have to go through Argentina at some point.

[Big Cat]

What happens there where he has to coach against Argentina? Yeah, it's happened before in World Cups where you get coaches that have to coach against their home country. Like, it's very common for international teams, even really good international teams. To hire coaches that are not from that country.

[PFT Commenter]

He'll be coaching A.C. milan by then. Hank, we're good. I just wish we could just focus. I just want to focus. I want, I want to, I want to have a good result in our home country. World Cup.

[Big Cat]

Do we even know what the meetings look like? Was it a phone call? Was it, Was it over zoom? Was it an imper. Did they fly over here? Like, that's. I think that's fair to ask too. If it was like a phone call. Who gives a. If he's like flying over to Italy with a pamphlet and like, I'm just reading PowerPoint presentation of how to turn around AC Milan.

[PFT Commenter]

I just searched him. Who? Hercules Gomez. That guy sounds official.

[Big Cat]

He was on the US team for a while.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, great. He said there are a few truths here. He was always planning to leave, despite what he may have said before. Not the first time he's thrown his hat into the ring while managing the US Men's national team. And three, this is a terrible look. Even the Pochettino apologist pft Would have to admit it.

[Big Cat]

I've said that. There's a lot of room to criticize him.

[PFT Commenter]

This is a terrible look. Is Hercules saying it? He's a soccer guy.

[Big Cat]

I think that. Let's just wait. If the, if the team sucks to

[PFT Commenter]

see if Ace Milan gives him the job.

[Big Cat]

If the team sucks, he deserves in US Soccer. Deserves all the criticism in the world because this has been the World cup that we were supposed to be good for.

[PFT Commenter]

I, I'm with you on the email thing. The email thing's overblown. I don't really care. Like, yeah, they could have called, but, like, at the end of the day, it's 55 guys who are all in different places. Whatever. It sucks. This happens. This one. I just wish. Come on, man. Just pretend you love us a little bit longer. That's all.

[Big Cat]

This stuff does happen in other sports too. And in, in some head coaches.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know how many head coaches before the big tournament coordinator.

[Max]

Sure.

[Big Cat]

We just had one on the show a couple weeks ago.

[PFT Commenter]

Who?

[Big Cat]

Lane Kiffin.

[PFT Commenter]

Lane Kiffin had to leave. They told him he couldn't coach. Yeah, that's what we should tell this

[Big Cat]

guy because he was talking to other people.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. We should tell Pochettino. You can't coach. You're right. So he agreed with Ole Miss.

[Big Cat]

So put him on a a tarmac

[PFT Commenter]

y him the out.

[Big Cat]

Get him on two planes.

[PFT Commenter]

Want to go to AC Milan.

[Memes]

Go.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, dude, I, I, I think. Let's let's see what happens. I It's all going to come out in the wash in the World cup anyways. If we don't play well, then it's squarely on him and squarely on the Federation. If we do play well, then everyone's gonna be like, great job. This isn't a home run hire. You never know. Christopher, I also think that we have a chance where we're going to. We are going to be able to try to bribe and cheat our way through this World Cup.

[PFT Commenter]

I'd love that.

[Big Cat]

And it could kick ass.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't care how it happens. I'd love that. Christopher Sanchez is the only MLB pitcher in the modern era with 40 plus strikeouts and no runs allowed in a calendar month. You said that, right?

[Max]

Sure did.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. I just wanted to say it again so that we can timestamp this as all Christopher Sanchez talk. What? This has all been one Christopher. Thank you memes.

[Max]

We did nine and we did.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, no, no. We started with Christopher Sanchez. I just ended with more Christopher Sanchez. I got break reiterated.

[TJ Oshie]

We did a lot of soccer. We did the most soccer talk we've ever done.

[Max]

Ever.

[Big Cat]

The Houston Astros have combined no hit the San Francisco Giants, much like the Philadelphia Phillies got no hit by the Houston Astros in the World Series. How about that?

[PFT Commenter]

That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.

[Big Cat]

Oh, sorry.

[PFT Commenter]

It was.

[Big Cat]

It was the Rangers and it was like four days ago.

[Max]

Funny guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We even did the like Max when he was like, it doesn't count. I was like, but how many hits they get? And he even said, well, you're like, oh, there's four. Was there four walks or something? You got mad about the walks.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that's right. I. Yep, I remember that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Too many walks.

[PFT Commenter]

Too many walks.

[Big Cat]

Tell you what, I'm fired up for Joe Scally. That's all I know.

[PFT Commenter]

He is playing soccer.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. No matter. No matter what you think about Pochettino and everything he's doing, he's got the ace in the hole with Joe Scally. I'm just gonna also say he's security Mike's nephew.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. Our guy. Still on the. Still on the text chain from Grit Week, which I love. He's just our. He's just watching over us at all times. Okay, let's talk to TJ Osha. We're gonna do some more hockey talk and then we have fire fest on

[Big Cat]

the other side before we get to Captain America. Tjoshi. He's brought to you by Jose Cuervo. When Cuervo enters. Every moment just gets better. You find yourself in the center of the dance floor. You can't help but stand up and high five those around you at the game. The room reacts like it just got the same text at the same time. Or like the same guy just hit three shootout goals in a row against her heated rival. You stop checking the time. Suddenly, small talk escalates to laughing so hard that you can barely catch your breath. And that is the Cuervo effect. All you got to do is keep it Cuervo. Jose Cuervo. Delicious. Keep it Cuervo. Enjoy the Cuervo moments. And Tjoshi is also brought to you by Experian. You can get credit for the bills that you're already paying. With Experian. You can improve your credit with Experian Boost. You can raise your credit score instantly for free. Your positive rent utility, even streaming payments to instantly increase your credit scores. You can boost your credit scores instantly with Experian Boost. It's completely free. You can instantly raise that credit score, get better credit scores. Get credit for those bills that you're already paying. Now paying rent could boost your credit score instantly. Download the app. Get started for free. Today, results will vary. Not all payments are boost eligible or considered by lenders. See experian.com for details. And now here's TJ Oshi.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. It is Captain America. TJ Oshi. He is joining us, talking some hockey, also talking some golf because we have the American Century Golf, American Century Championship coming up in Lake Tahoe after the Fourth of July. And TJ you're playing in it. Let's start with this because we want, we have a lot of hockey stuff to talk about, but are you gonna, are you gonna finish maybe top 20 this year? Because I feel like you've been, you've been getting closer and closer. And this is like you now fully retired. You have a lot of time to golf. It's the best event. How is your golf game going? And are you thinking maybe this is the year that we, we get in the top 20?

[TJ Oshie]

I think every year that's kind of my goal is top, top 20. You know, I think the pro ams come around, I start swinging for the fences. Then my back's in shambles by the time the real tournament comes. But no, it really is the best weekend. Like you said right after, right after the 4th of July. I think it's the 10th through the 12th this year. What an amazing event they put on Actually, one time I was leading after day one.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh.

[TJ Oshie]

And the funny thing about this is I think I end up being, like, top 15 or something. The funny thing about this was I had this core surgery, so my, you know, my lower left AB was kind of, you know, torn off the pelvic bone or whatever from. Just from hockey and playoffs and all that. So I hadn't really played golf yet. The first time I actually played a full round of golf was in Tahoe. And I think that, you know, goes to show what a mental I am out there, that I just. I just can't. I just can't figure it out when I'm full strength. And that time, I just. I didn't care. I was playing with the Car brothers. We were hyping each other up, and after. After day one, I was in the lead.

[PFT Commenter]

That was the most hockey tough thing ever, where you just said, yeah, my lower left AB was torn off my pelvic or whatever.

[TJ Oshie]

Or just like, I think they call the sports hernia.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one of those things after the playoffs, you're like, oh, I need surgery.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. They. When they put sports in front of anything, it really sounds less tough. It's like, yeah, I got. I got a sports. I got sports herpes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We always talk about turf toe. Turf toe is, like the worst name for actual injury because everyone thinks turf toe. It's like, dude, you stub your toe, what's the problem? Why are you out for three weeks?

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, yeah, we turf. Same thing. I honestly didn't know what it was until, like, this last year. I was like, this. This toe thing can't be that bad. Like, tape this thing up. But we. Now that I learned what it is, we have something in hockey. It's called lace bite, where it's in, like, the front of your ankle, and it literally feels like there's a knife going into your. Your ankle if you try to tie your skates. And so now I realize, like, I sympathize with those guys, especially since they're running all over the ice. We at least get to glide around a little bit.

[PFT Commenter]

What was the worst thing you played through in the playoffs where you're like, maybe even like, hey, this is getting so bad. I. I might have to just call it even though. Even though you can't. Because hockey tough.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, I think it was. Honestly, it was my last. The last game of my career in playoffs. Game four. I broke my hand in game three. And you know when you. Right when you happen. Right when it Happens you kind of got adrenaline, right. And so like the guy, you know, it hurts, but it's, it's, you know, maybe it's fine. And then two days later, once you're playing like it's sore, it's hurting, you know, it was to the point where you, you get shoot shot up before the game. They try to numb it best they can. The problem was they kind of numbed a couple of my fingers, so holding on to my stick wasn't very, you know, I wasn't very sturdy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

And it honestly was probably right at that point. I had my back stuff going on as well, which is what I retired from. So I'm worrying about the back. I got my broken hand, and it was really close to the point where I was like, I could. I could be worse off for the team. And so it was kind of floating that line. Whereas pain wise, you know, it pains. Just, just pain. Like, you just, you just get through it. It's gonna end when the game ends. You get some ice, whatever. But when, when you think it could affect the team or you're. There's someone else be better off in there, that's kind of where I, Where I draw the line. And so I was right there my, My last game, and I hadn't a feeling was my last game. So I was like, let's just tough it out for 60 more minutes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

And it was a dirty hit. I remember that last game. It's a very dirty hit. And I, I don't know if you're. If you're playing out there and you get hurt via a dirty hit. Is there more of, like, do you want to play through it more because you knew it was kind of a cheap shot.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Well, you probably want to get back at the guy.

[Big Cat]

Right, Right.

[TJ Oshie]

Like, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. And yeah, so the, you know, I don't know if you're referring to like the, the. It was Rempe that broke my hand, took my hand to the glass there and hit me. The game before that, you know, that. That stung a little bit.

[Big Cat]

That's the one I was thinking of.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, that. Yeah, that's sung on the noggin. That one wasn't necessarily the one that did it. It was. It was game three, the next game. But, yeah, that's getting way off topic. But I actually, because. Because of that hit, I missed my thousandth game golf trip and John Carlson's thousand game golf trip. Because that whole summer, my hand was broken. I ended up playing in Tahoe, but I wasn't very good.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. So you're talking about Carlson. He got traded this year, and I would. I sat down, I thought about it, and it's very, very difficult if you want to make a Mount Rushmore of Washington Capitals from that era, from the era that you played in. I don't even know who the four would be, because if you. If you narrow it down to just four, I feel like you could make a great case that you're leaving two guys out. So on mine, I think, and I could be talked out of it. I had. I had ovi, I had you, I had Carlson, and then I put Holtby on there. But then, I mean, you could talk about Koozie, you could talk about Willie, you could talk about Backstrom. Like, there's a lot of guys that would get left off. So, like, have you thought about who that. Who that top four would be?

[TJ Oshie]

If we're speaking just that era, I think it's ovi. Backstrom, Carlson Holpy. I think it's like, I. Honestly, I don't think it's very close. And you could probably argue, I think all time caps. I think it's Carlson, Backstrom, ovi, and then probably one of the old dogs. Right. But. But, I mean, Carlson, I think, is leading every category possible on the defensive side, so I think he's got to be in there. He actually was in Tahoe a couple years ago. Man, what a tournament wouldn't. Unbelievable.

[PFT Commenter]

It is the best.

[TJ Oshie]

Like, I just keep going back to it because it's the best, and I got the. The invite this year. And every year you just, you know, you pray that, you know, one, you played it good enough. Two, you know, you were a good person to everyone involved. And three, you got the fans involved. Right. Because that's, you know, we suck. Like, some of the guys are good, but a lot of us aren't, like, you know, really good. They'd probably rather, you know, watch, like, a PGA tour event if you're going to watch strictly golf. Yeah, but we're there, like, with all the fans you feel for us, it feels like you're at the PGA Championship or the Masters, you know, for. For our caliber golfer. But the fans are what make it so awesome, especially on 17. That hole is absolutely nuts.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. Can we talk a little bit about the. The Stanley cup playoffs and what we got going on coming up? Because you've got some insight. You did play against the Golden Knights in the Stanley cup finals. It was a great series. Five games, but they have a unique home ice advantage, I think, with the. The showmanship and everything that happens before the game. Was that any different for you guys? Getting ready to play against the Knights? How much time they took before the game, doing the. The whole, like, Medieval Times celebration?

[TJ Oshie]

I don't. I think in just in general, the. The Stanley cup finals is so much different. Different from everything else, right? There's so much more media, there's so much more attention. There's so many more rules and so much more tv. Things that, like, your schedule's just kind of. It's kind of messed up in general. Until the puck drop. We were super surprised by Vegas and their fans and the music and everything in the regular season that year. That was the first year they're in the league, so that caught us off guard in the finals. I don't think it was anything. Anything crazy. If anything, that place kind of gets you jacked up. Like, that's a fun place to play. And so there's some places where maybe it's. I don't know, maybe you get a little nervous or. Or maybe the fans are, like, a little too rowdy. That's just like, the right type of, like, hyping people up where, you know, and it's Vegas, so everyone's traveling there. No matter what team you are in the. Especially from somewhere cold. If you're from Canada, like, if there's Montreal, people are going to Vegas for sure to get down in the warm weather, especially during the. During the season. So I don't think they necessarily have an advantage, if anything, at this point. Right now, their advantage is probably their. Their leadership and the. The guys that have been there before and have done it.

[PFT Commenter]

Was that series shocking to you? Because all year it was like the Ads, and I know, you know, Makar was. Was out and the McKinnon gets banged up. And they were dealing with injuries, but the AVs were the best team. You know, it felt like all year. And to. To lose in a sweep, is it just Vegas is playing at that level? Like, what has happened with Vegas in these playoffs? The coach change. Like, can you explain that to us?

[TJ Oshie]

I think. I think for them or some teams, and. And we were one of those teams in 2018 when we won every round. You almost pick up a little bit more steam and a little bit more belief in what you're trying to do. Guys change their game or play a certain style, and then they start having success and they're like, okay, I'll just keep doing this. We'll keep Having success and that kind of bleeds through the rest of the team. And so I think Vegas is one of those teams. I will say I think Colorado was a lot more beat up than, than most people know, you know, but that, that's what playoffs are about, right? You're grinding every night, you're playing through injuries. I'm sure there's a lot of guys on Vegas that are, that are dinged up pretty good. I think it both teams fully healthy. The series is, I don't think is a sweep. I don't think it's, you know, even close to being a sweep. But you can't deny what Vegas has going for them right now and the belief in their system, their team, their coaches. I, that's the exact same feeling we had after we beat Pittsburgh in round two. Went on to, to Tampa. We ended up going seven in that series. But there was never like any, there was never any panic. Honestly. We weren't worried at all. Like, we were just like playing our game and we were convinced that at the end of a seven game series we're gonna win. But Vegas is playing on a different clip here. It's gonna be interesting to see like who they have to, who they have to play against because that's kind of going to determine how the games are going to go a little bit.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So are the Canadian. We're taping this on Thursday afternoon games. What is it? Game 5 is on Friday night. Are the Canadiens dead though? Like it doesn't. The game one, they win, then you got back to back overtime games. Then Carolina kind of flexes their muscles in game four. Does it feel like it's hey, come on, like Carolina's the better team and it's going to be over in five or is there any way that Montreal can get back in this series?

[TJ Oshie]

Well, it feels to me like Montreal, the only way they can get back is if they score the first goal in game five. Like they, they absolutely have to score the first goal and they probably have to score the second goal too because there's no team in the league, not Colorado, not Vegas, not anyone else. I would rather that would be harder to chase from behind than Carolina because they play such a North direct in your face game and their game doesn't change if they're up or down. And so to chase against that is very difficult because you have very little time and space. It's not like a team like, like an Anaheim maybe or even at times of Colorado that they'll try some plays, they'll get a Little risky. That makes them, you know, seam plays through the middle, through a couple sticks. And if they, they make it, yeah, they're going to get a good chance to score. But Carolina doesn't do that. They just get it deep. They grind you down. That's why you see Montreal barely getting any shots in these thirds periods when, when they need goals because Carolina just shoves it down your throat. And so I don't want to say Montreal's dead. I love what Martin St. Louis doing there. I respect the heck out of that guy. I think his message is unbelievable and a lot different than a lot of coaches in the league because he's been there before and he's done it as a player, as one of the best in the league. But it just might not be Montreal's time just yet.

[PFT Commenter]

So other than like getting an early lead on Carolina, what is the, what is the recipe to beating them? Because you're like, I mean they're for check we were talking about their four check is ferocious and they just stay on top of you. Is it, is it personnel or is it a scheme that can counteract what they're. They want to do and how they want to play aggressively?

[TJ Oshie]

So I don't know how in detail you want me to get without like a drawing board, but get it, get in detail. So this is, this is my, my opinion. I played against Carolina in playoffs the year after we won and it felt like There was like 10 guys on the ice right at that time we were still playing a similar system to we played when we, when we won. And that was teams that forecheck have heavily, instead of trying to throw the puck by them really fast, you actually suck them in and bring their pressure to you, right? And then you don't make a long play, you make a little short play. So if you could think of a defenseman going back, a guy breathing down his neck behind him instead of that, that his partner, the D man going to the weak side of the ice and making a long play. You go right next to the guy you make literally it's like a three put three foot pass and now you, that's one guy sucked in. Now the second guy is going for the second D man. Now the centerman supports that second demon, gives it to the centerman. Now you just beat two guys in a small little 10 foot area. One of your demon have to jump by them and now you're odd man, rush the other way. And so in a way you just kind of suck them in and let their pressure come at you and, and move around them and make small little plays, support each other up the ice. And then when you get in their zone, like, you have to wear them down. You have to. I know a lot of teams want to shoot a lot. You have to get a cycle game going because the second they get the puck, they're gone. And so that's kind of what, what we focused on. I, I sound like a band aid on this thing because I broke my collarbone in that series. But we end up losing seven to him. I think I went out in game four, but that's, that's the only way I can figure out to beat him. Because if they're on their game and they're all pressuring in unison, it's just, it feels like they have like three too many men on the ice. But if, if you can suck them in, get them off their game a little bit, get them stopping a little bit in the, off their forecheck, instead of just rounding and, and back checking, you can use their pressure against them and jump by them and work up the ice as a unit of five,

[Big Cat]

suck them and make them come at you, and then, and then you can get through. But then I, I also imagine, like, if you do commit a turnover as you're trying to suck them in, then it's like, like everything's on fire. That's why it's such an effective team to play against. It's like if you screw up trying to beat them, then you're way worse than where you started off.

[TJ Oshie]

Well, that, that's why the short plays help you, right? Because you already have guys around the puck. Instead of those long plays, if you mess up one of those long plays, like I think it was Lane Hudson in Game 3, maybe kind of made a, a play across the middle. It just jumped on him. It wasn't his fault. But because of their pressure, they turn that over and they score. I think the OT winner, you know, a couple seconds after that, they score a goal right after that. So there is ways to beat them, but, but they're all bought in and it's, it's going to be tough. If they're the ones playing Vegas, Vegas is going to have their hands full.

[PFT Commenter]

Is it, is it a mental part then? Because your strategy, what you explained it, I, I appreciate you dumbing it down for us because it makes sense. Like you want them to almost get over aggressive, use their aggression against themselves, but when you're trying to beat it with the small passes, is it a mental game where it's like every now and then you see someone open and you're like, I'm going to try this long pass. Now you're basically playing back into their hands where you have to be so diligent and play a certain style for 60 minutes that it's almost a mental taxation on you of like, fuck, we cannot get out of our, our lane here.

[TJ Oshie]

I think it's more of a communication thing. And so that's, that's one area of the game. Especially my later years, my last couple years, I noticed that these young guys, a lot less, I don't know, maybe because they have their head up more than us, but they, they talk on the ice a lot less. And it makes, it makes you almost, it gives you like a brief, I don't know, 2/10 of a second, like, pause at like, to like, what's this guy gonna do? Who's he gonna pass to? Whereas if someone's yelling at you like, you know, you play like you play pickup basketball or something, some guy screams your name, you're almost like, shoot, I'm gonna give it to you, right? Like this guy, this guy wants it. And so it's a little bit more like that. And we had, we had calls for everything. Wall was going away from the goalie, net was going behind the net, like the center moon, call it for like a centerman pop. There's a bunch of different ways and ways that you can set your feet as defenseman to get these forwards to. Yeah, they let, let them forecheck you, but don't let them forecheck you. And then like kind of round off and keep their speed and go on the back check so you can catch them. But it is hard. But communication is more of the thing. There are times where you have to play offense, right? You see a guy open through the seam and he has a chance at a breakaway, you got to make the pass, but you just can't do that every time. Every play can't be long because they're gonna, they're gonna hound you.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

So in the event that they do move on, do you, you like the Hurricanes chances against the Golden Knights?

[TJ Oshie]

I think it's going to be a little bit of a dog fight because like I was mentioning, Vegas loves the hole under the puck in the ozone. They like the cycle game. They're not a high shot volume team. They can play that game, but they got guys like Jack Eichel were like, it's just hard to get the puck from them, right. Cole Caufield, unbelievable player. And, and so fast, like I couldn't personally catch them. These Carolina guys, like, are doing pretty good job, but the smaller guys, even the fast guys, you can kind of be physical. You can't be physical. On Jack Eichel, he's too big and he's too good and he's going to beat you. If anyone can, like, you know, bring pressure to him and find someone to pass to, yeah, he's one of those guys. So I think it, I think they're hand. It'll be a lot tougher task for them with this pressure. And Vegas isn't going to get caught up in the moment because they got so many guys that won the cup not too long ago. And so they, they're, they're used to the moment, so they're not going to be nervous, they're not going to be shy, their hands aren't going to be shaky. They're not going to be grabbing their stick too tight, which I'm not saying Montreal is, but they are a lot more inexperienced than a team like Vegas.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I took Eichel to win. Khan Smythe shout out chiclet's game notes. 151 gave that out support. The boys I like, I like where their head's at on that one. So I'm all in on the. On the Golden Knights of the the in the finals. We'll get back to Tjoshi. He's brought to you by Mountain Dew. Summer's coming. I can't wait for Camp Barstool. I can't wait to spend more time outdoors. I can't wait to hit the lake. We got beautiful Lake Michigan right next to us. Nothing better than hanging out a day on the lake. Maybe you take the boat out there and you have an ice cold Mountain Dew. The refreshing citrusy kick of Mountain Dew. I've got the zero sugar right here, which tastes delicious. Mountain Dew is proudly born in the foothills of Tennessee. It's a refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew. An American original. Thinking about going to some soccer games this summer. I hear there's a big tournament in town. I can't wait to check out some soccer over the summer. I'll be drinking Mountain Dew, tailgating with some Mountain Dew. Grab a Dew. Tasting great since 48. Now back to Tjoshi. Got a question for you about. About OVI and his future with the team. I know that you've kind of gone back and forth on whether or not you think he's going to come back next year. Have. First of all, have you talked to him about whether or not he's gonna be back. Is that something that you guys have had a conversation about? And then two. Where are we at right now? Where do you think he's gonna. He's gonna end up playing next year?

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, me and O had a couple pops multiple times. One time when he was in Minnesota for the regular season and then I did their last game, so we met up the night before and chatted for a while. And honestly, both times he was completely. You know, he would say something that would lead me to think that he was leaving and then he would say something else that made me think he was coming back, honestly. And I don't know this. I haven't spoken to him since. Since the end of the season. I feel like this time off now and kind of seeing the playoffs and the finals coming around like you're so. You're so beat up at the end of an 82 game season, especially as you get older, that I feel like you almost need like a month off to almost miss it a little bit because it's been, you know, he's been doing it for so long and the fact that it wasn't. The fact that he didn't make a decision early, like right after, like a week after he does, he had a chance to do a big press conference. You know, all that stuff, it makes me think that, that there's a. There's a better chance that he's coming back and I'm not gonna. Like I said, I don't know. We haven't. We haven't talked about it. And ultimately the big man's gonna make whatever decision he wants to make. But I think, I think I personally. And he probably doesn't even want it, but I personally would love, you know, a little farewell tour. Kind of like Kopitar did this year. I know a lot of fans in a lot of cities would love to go see Obi one last time at the Garden or one last time in Montreal or whatever, wherever it is. So I think there's a. I personally lean that he's going to be back, but I have zero facts to. To back it up.

[Big Cat]

Okay. I like that take. I like that take a lot. Did. Were you the one that put him on a 3 mafia or how did that get started with the bands and Maker Dance?

[TJ Oshie]

No, Big man. He'll just. He'll grab whatever jingle he likes. And you know, we had jg. He would always say JG Wentworth or G. Yeah, no, he didn't say JG Wentworth though. But he. In the back of the. In the back of the bus, you know, whatever. You know, he's watching a video, you know, Hit me baby one more time. Came up a couple times. Just like, whatever jingle kind of. He gets, like, he says it, but he doesn't know the words. So he makes something up, usually something not okay to say, like, on air, and. And then it just kind of. It kind of hits. So I think it was Jacob Chickren that. That he must have made a dance move or something. I was hurt at this time on ltir, so I wasn't. I wasn't in the room for this. But all of a sudden, he became bands. And that's literally what he calls him. He calls chick run bands.

[Big Cat]

I love that. That's awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I know you're a humble guy, but I have to say. Or. Let me ask this question. You're going to give me a humble answer, but I want you to give me a real answer. The Olympics gold medal win this year, you're. There was there a part of you that's like, yeah, all these guys on this team watched me in. In 2014 and watched that moment. And, like, whether you want to admit it or not, like, that definitely shaped the guys who go on to win the gold medal. Did you have a moment to reflect on that and be like, I am part of this? Because you are. Whether you want to admit it or not, you are. And I think there's probably some guys on the team that said that to you, but you are. And were you able to, like, have that moment being like, yeah, I was part of this family that has now reached the goal of gold medal.

[TJ Oshie]

I would say there was some, like, things online where they filled up, like, their favorite Olympic memory type stuff, right? And a couple guys had my name in there, and a couple guys reached out and then mentioned something afterwards. You know, I sent a couple guys congratulations text, things like that. Obviously, the Tkachuk brothers, I play with their dad, so they. I saw them when they were little shits in the locker room playing. Playing shiny with, you know, a Nerf ball. And so super kind words from them. And I would say I respect the guys that came before me so much, and I learned so much from them that now looking back, I think I can appreciate that. That maybe I played a part in them wanting to win an Olympic gold medal. I think the fact that I didn't win a gold medal, like, just kills me. And so, like, I. The. The shootout, to me was. It was just a moment in a game where I. I got to do something. I. I Loved and was super confident in.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

At like, at that time, probably anything, like probably even now, I would put myself up against anyone in the world in like a one on one shootout thing. Right. And so in that moment, it didn't feel super big to me because it was just like I was having. I was literally smiling out there. We were laughing on the bench. I was like having a blast.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

You know, so the moment didn't feel as big to me as maybe some of the. Some of the people that were at the bar at 6am that woke up early to go to the. You know, to go with their kid or to celebrate or to chant my name in the. You know what I mean? And I didn't feel that same suspense in the game because I had a lot of confidence in it. But I do, I do now. I appreciate the fact that that played a factor in these kids lives and maybe made them a little bit more hungry to play on Team USA and win a gold medal. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, I got to say, personally, you saved my life because that morning, my friend who owns a bar in Chicago, he opened the bar early. We thought like, we did like a barstool event. I thought, you know, whatever. Like, it's 6:00am like, there's going to be like 20 people that show up. It was a line down the block and it was packed. And I drank so many shots that day that I had to be peeled off the middle of the street at like noon. And I made a rule from that point forward, I'm never like taking free shots from fans ever again. So you saved my life. Thank you. Because I. There was a bad path. Like, I. It was such an unbelievable moment. And for people who were at Declan's on that, that morning, like, it was just. It's the best. Like we were in a bar in Chicago and everyone was chanting your name and you're on the blues at the time. Like, that's not. You know what I mean? Like, that was the moment. It was so fucking cool.

[TJ Oshie]

I appreciate it. No, I. Honestly, after the game I had to do a bunch of media stuff and go to like the NBC studios and stuff. And all I wanted to do, you know, hockey players, right. I know you're at the Olympics and a lot of Olympic athletes are not like hockey players, but all I want to do is go grab like a couple beers with the boys and I kind of celebrate the W, you know.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Couldn't find a beer anywhere. So it was. It was nothing. I think Bacchus was already sleeping when I got back.

[Big Cat]

To the room. So do you remember every single shot

[TJ Oshie]

that you had in the shootout from the Olympics?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

What was the thought process like before every shot? Did you know what you were going to do before you started the shot or were you just waiting to react to see what, what was happening and then you would adjust on the fly or how'd that go?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Can you break it down? Because you could do all six.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

You could psych yourself out, I'd imagine, by like overthinking every single shot.

[PFT Commenter]

Do all six. Yeah, tell us, tell us what you're going through your head and what ended up happening on all six.

[Big Cat]

Oral history.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, I can. I can break it down. So the first one was pre scouted. We pre scouted. I think that day we had. I think we had pregame meal at the USA Hockey House. I want to say we had TVs with like a shootout loop going. And so while you're eating, you can just watch the goalie and watch his tendencies. I knew I was going five hole on the first one. I don't think I'd shot on Bob yet in the NHL up to that point. And so I knew I was going five hole. I went first, you know, super. Yeah, I was, I was super confident in that 1. Went down 5 hole, scored the second one. What was the second one? The second one. So actually the first time I didn't play in a long time because I was like a fourth liner and we had four players on the fourth line and so. And we went to the third period. The game was tight. We went to overtime. I didn't really. I hadn't really been on the ice for like 45 minutes. Right. So my very first time down the ice, if anyone goes and re. Watches it, I actually lose the puck on my own skating down the ice because, like, man, my stick feels like really long.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

And it was just kind of a little awkward. Second time, go down. I lost the puck in my move and ended up just throwing it. Five hole. It was a complete panic, not on purpose. And then I apologize. Second one. I dig forehand. Beat him clean. Shot it over the net.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[TJ Oshie]

And then the next one, I lost the puck again through a five hole. My third one, I believe. So now we're on four.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[TJ Oshie]

Are we on four?

[Big Cat]

It says that in the, the fourth round that you missed high over the crossbar, which you.

[TJ Oshie]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

And then the one after that was in the fifth round was you went back to back.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

And you had, you had a snap, like a quick shot.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, so I. I did a little like the five hole move where I kind of like, you know, wiggle my stick in my head a little bit. I was going to go five hole. He closed it up, and then I wanted to deke and I made the deke, and he didn't move. So I just went quick over his. Over his elbow. A lot of people make the mistake. I know it's a small screen. You don't go for the top corner. You go right over their elbow because that's where it dips down. That goes off the bar, off his back, in the net. Shot five. I go backhand, because I haven't gone backhand yet. He hits it out of the air with the bottom of his stick. And so I beat him clean. My two best moves, I shot over the net. And the other one, he batted out of the air with the bottom of his blade. And then six shot. We're going again. And I was like, I might as well go back to five hole and see. See what happens. So I. I had never planned on going down the ice the exact same way until I went. Excuse me. Until I went the second time, because I figured, all right, I might be going a little bit here. I'm gonna try to get in his head and try to psych him out. And then I ended up going that in that same route the rest of my career after that.

[Big Cat]

Did you know that you were going to get called on four times in a row? Was that part of the game plan?

[TJ Oshie]

No. And honestly, after my two misses, I kind of felt that because, like, Patrick Kane's over here, Zach Parisi over here, who was like my idol that went to North Dakota, and Pavelski is phenomenal at shootout. There's so many guys where, like, I was like, I. I don't know why, I just felt bad that they didn't get a chance to go, you know? And so I actually. Because I went so slow and they were kind of rushing us through this, I actually got more tired skating back to the bench because it's Olympic size rink. I got more tired going back to the bench than coming back out. And there was one point I finally got in the bench. They had just went missed. And I, like, looked at the coach and the coaches are laughing, and they look at me and I'm like, you want me to go again? And they're like, yes. And I think Brooke or Brooks Orpet grabbed me by the shoulder and, like, threw me back on the ice. But it was. It was crazy. Like, we were. We were. I Was having an absolute blast out there.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. It's awesome to watch back. I just pulled it up and that, that last one, I mean Bob's got a. Like have you, did you ever talk to him after like you going five hole that many times on him's gotta be. That's brutal.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, well, so this is probably one of the more most disrespectful things I've, I've done is I think a year later I had a shootout against them and I went five hole and scored.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh no.

[TJ Oshie]

But. And then two months after the Olympics, I had a, a penalty shot. So in game penalty shot against Jonathan Quick who was bailing me out behind me the whole shootout. And I ended up going five hole on him too. He smashes the, the crossbar with his stick because he was so upset.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I feel like they don't do that a lot anymore. It's very rare that you see an in game penalty shot. Why are refs like so reluctant to call that?

[TJ Oshie]

I don't know. I don't know what the. If, if it. There's so many demand now. They're just such good skaters that like I feel like guys get caught a lot. Like fully caught. Whereas like my nightmare is not breakaway in, in game because I'm not a very good skater because I almost know someone's coming to catch me. It was the same in football. Like if I break free and you're running, the sun's behind you. You see that like shadow catching up to you, like you're just not gonna make it. So I don't know why you don't get penalty shots. I wish honestly, as players, depending on who the break, who's having the breakaway, you'd almost prefer the, the, the power play over like this guy like whoever it is going.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

You don't get, you don't get to pick anyone on the ice. I think it's whoever the penalties on.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Stick with them.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I, I just have like a Caps porn related question for you. Can you just talk about like, you know, having a history of, of banging your head against the wall in the playoffs and what that was like and then what it meant to finally get over that hump in 2018 and, and finally get it done and how you celebrated that night afterwards.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, so it was. I, I came into D.C. and they had, you know, this problem of not going all the way right. And feeling like they had what it took. That was the same thing in St. Louis for us. We were always losing to Chicago when they Were winning all their cups in la. Anaheim and San Jose were so hard to play against. And so we had all these. And we were just super physical, blue collar, nothing too flashy. And so I had a lot of that heartache I brought over from St. Louis. And it was the same thing that they had in D.C. so we go win the President's trophy, the first. My first two years. And we're almost go in thinking, like, we have to win. We're too good not to win. And there was almost a little bit of that doubt, right, that, like, if we don't win, like, we. We really, like, this was the best opportunity we're ever going to have. Everyone was saying that over those two years were Obi's window. And then Obi was gonna, you know, fall off. They were wrong about that. And then that year it was. Barry Trots had this meeting with us. I think we're in Colorado. I'm not positive it was in between periods or like after a game. We played terrible. And he came in and just absolutely ripped everyone in the room. And he started with the old guys. He started with ovi, then Backstrom, then me, then Carlson, and basically said, like, if you don't start defending the way you have to defend, you will not play again. Like, you're. You won't play in the games. And, you know, that's for guys that are almost always going to get their ice time for a coach to hear that and like, almost hear, like, the emotion in his voice like that he's like, dead serious for whatever reason. We just kind of started. We just kind of started clicking and everyone started buying in. And then when playoffs came around, it was like, the guys that don't score very much came up big in big moments. The star players that don't usually block shots or back check as hard as they can and stop in front of the net. That. Those guys, OVI and Koozie, those guys were doing it. You know, the guys that, you know, everyone. The goaltending. Holtz was struggling going into the playoffs. And then after comes in game three, round one, and. And takes us the whole way. So it was. There was just an amount, amazing amount of joy, like when we won the cup, especially the way we did it because our team partied all year, like, together, right? Not like in an unhealthy way, but in a way of like, we're always together, we're always doing things together. And so when we won, like, it was just the same thing. Like, everything was together. We all went to Hakkasan together. I actually tried not to drink that much that night because I wanted to. I wanted to. I wanted to be with the cup when the sun came up. And I'm a bit of a sleeper, you know, you. If.

[Big Cat]

If.

[TJ Oshie]

If, you know, things. Things get out of control if I sit down. Like, I'm. I'm out.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

And. And so I. I ended up doing it. You know, I. I had a decent amount to drink, but I. We were sitting in our team lounge, Stanley cup, right next to me and Matt Niskinen and our team services guy, our security guy, and we sat there with a cup. All the sun came up on, like, the 20, whatever floor of the Mandarin Hotel. And so it was just an amazing experience. And, I mean, Hakasan, too, like always in the DJ booth.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Freaking ripping the cup around. So what a time.

[Big Cat]

It was unrealized. So I. I was lucky enough to be in Hakkasan, and I thought I was getting kicked out. And there was a security guy that came over me, tapped me on my shoulder, and said, go to that guy, because there was another security guy shining a flashlight. So I walked to that guy, and then that guy says, go to that security guy. Right now there's another guy flashing a flashlight. Like, I walked to, like, four security guys, and then finally the last guy says, all right, come right here, and it's me. And the Stanley cup is right there, and it's just. It's filled to the top with beer. And they were like, take a sip. I didn't want to take a sip because, like, you guys were around it. You guys had just won the Cup. But then I. I forget who held it up. It might have been DSPs in the picture, trying to remember who else. But anyway, somebody was held up. I was like, it'd be disrespectful at this point not to drink out of it. And it was just an amazing place to win the Stanley cup in Las Vegas. I actually saw you in one of the elevators. It was, like, not too long after the game was over. I think you were going up, back up to your room to get changed. I was on one side. You were on the other side of the elevator. I didn't say anything because you were with your family and stuff. I. I could see that you were, like, very emotional about how things went and seeing how happy you were and how much that moment meant to you. Like, that actually made me emotional. I was like, this is just. It's just cool to finally see these guys win. And so, thank you. This is a Long way of me saying thank you on behalf of DC for winning that Stanley cup, because it was awesome.

[TJ Oshie]

No, I appreciate it, man. We. We did. We did everything with the fans. We felt. We felt all the love. That's why we were. You know, I don't know how many teams have done it. I guess I don't really pay too much attention, but, like, we wanted the fans involved in everything. Every party we had, you know, everyone knew where we were. We'd make sure, you know, for the top of Don Tito's, like. Like, we saw the fans down there chanting. Like, I grabbed the cup. We'd go run downstairs and we'd run through the crowd, make sure everyone could touch it. Yeah, it was. It was unbelievable. Honestly, we didn't even know what to do. We were so happy that we were just like. I guess we could just all party together and. And it was. It was blast.

[PFT Commenter]

It's the best trophy to win just because of that celebration like that. No other sport has that type of celebration that lasts for, like, two, three days with the cup going everywhere. It's just. It's awesome.

[Big Cat]

You invented a new way to drink beer. I'd never seen that before.

[TJ Oshie]

You.

[Big Cat]

You shirt yourself and then drink it right through the. Right through the belly.

[TJ Oshie]

The Kevin Bacon hollow man. That's what I call it.

[Big Cat]

When was the last time you did that?

[TJ Oshie]

I did it for. At a charity event one time for lockers. Charity event. Craig Lachlan, and that's pretty much it, actually. No, sorry. I did it at the American Century, the year we won in the summer on the 17th hole. My brother was like, go ahead, do it. And I can't remember who I was playing against or playing with, but they started walking, and I'm walking off the tee, I throw my hat. He, like, looks over at my hat. I pull my shirt over, I start drinking the beer. And I can remember, like, they. My. The guys playing with me almost were, like, disgusted, like, what's this guy doing right now? But. And then I. Then I actually hit the putt on that hole for birdie with the. The beer helm.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Big Cat]

So give us a target. Where you finish at at this year's tournament? Like, if you. If you reach. What place will you do the beer set?

[PFT Commenter]

You have been top 20, by the way. That's my fault. You what? One year you finished 11, so that's my fault.

[TJ Oshie]

That was the.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Surgery.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that was a surgery.

[Big Cat]

What do you think if we get top. Top 15?

[TJ Oshie]

I think top 15 is doable. I. I actually do you guys know who Mo Norman is? The old Canadian golfer?

[Big Cat]

No, I don't know.

[TJ Oshie]

I saw it. He's like one of the. Supposed to be one of the greatest ball strikers of all time.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[TJ Oshie]

An absolute character. I watch his YouTube clips all the time and they were in time where there wasn't like YouTube. Right. So the. It was like in the 90s and stuff.

[Max]

Stuff.

[TJ Oshie]

But anyways, he had this very weird way of holding. It's like a single plane swing. Kind of what Bryson does, how his arms are really high. Basically your setup is at where impact would be. Anyways, I've been trying that out this spring and it's. It's taking a lot of pain out of my back and so I'm hitting the ball pretty, pretty solid right now. So. We'll see, we'll see. Once I get to Tahoe though, you know, I don't know, once the fans. I'm a mental. I'm. I'm just. Yeah, I don't have the mental toughness. Toughness that the, the golfers have. You know, it would almost be like throwing those guys in a Stanley cup game. Like they would be shaking, you know, because they just don't know. That's. That's what I'm like in Tahoe. But it. And it is so competitive with, you know, Pav, Marty, Fish. Romo seems to be getting his form back too. So.

[PFT Commenter]

Steph.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, yeah, Staff's back this year. Yeah, 123.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be a fun, fun time. It is our favorite thing. All right, I have a couple quick questions and we appreciate you coming on. Have you ever been soaked by Yance in a game?

[TJ Oshie]

I have not.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Are you sure?

[TJ Oshie]

I'm pretty sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[TJ Oshie]

Maybe.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. I. I actually don't know the answer to this.

[Big Cat]

Did Yance tell you otherwise?

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, I didn't ask Yance, but I just. I mean he saw so many people. I just. You never know. Like, we need a full list of like everyone who's been sunk by Yance.

[TJ Oshie]

I just, I don't think I'm on the list.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Okay, that's good. Also, you're a very competitive guy, obviously. Stanley cup champion, you know, Captain America. Why break it down for me? Why are you unable to get the first spot in the pickup line at your kids school?

[TJ Oshie]

I think, I think it's. I think I just. I just can't get there an hour early, you know, so you don't want it enough.

[PFT Commenter]

You don't Want it?

[TJ Oshie]

It was, like, 55 minutes early. I thought, like, that's. I left my house. I live three minutes away. I left my house an hour early, and I was still number five. And honestly, I was there yesterday doing. Scooping ice cream for root beer floats for, like, the class party or whatever.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

I walk out. It's over an hour until pickup time. I walk out, and I see two cars already sitting there, and they weren't even. The. The people weren't even in their cars.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, they're just camping out and, like, going for a walk.

[TJ Oshie]

They weren't in their cars. And you have to have a yellow name tag on your visor. Right. So they can, like, see microphone. Like, whose parents are there? And so I saw their name. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna air it out, you know, for the world to see, but, you know, I might be going through the. The school directory and send them an email saying, this is, like, you're the problem.

[PFT Commenter]

You need.

[TJ Oshie]

You.

[PFT Commenter]

You need to just, like, drop your kids off and then leave your car there for the day.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, I know.

[Big Cat]

That's.

[TJ Oshie]

I should. I should. I know. I know. The curbs red and there's a fire. Like, I don't care. Like, I. I need to leave it there. I lost my chance, though. Kids are getting home today, and all hell is gonna break.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. It's just funny. I. I don't know why it just makes you laugh because it's very. Like, guys retire, and then, like, their competitive nature is, like, what do they do next? Oh, they try to be the first in the pickup line for. For. Like, I've seen it many times, and it's just like, yeah, how am I going to channel my competitiveness? I gotta be number one.

[TJ Oshie]

It's. It's. Honestly, it's brutal. Like, I don't know. That's what. They should have, like, some type of game or some type of. Something that we could do when we retire. Like, if you can't skate anymore.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[TJ Oshie]

Where it's like, hey, every. Like, whatever it is, it give me math problems for all I care. Like, if I could get, like, 10 out of 10 more than Backstrom can get if he. Backstrom gets nine out of 10. Like, I'll feel good about myself.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[TJ Oshie]

But I played the men's basketball league, church league. It's just a pickup game on Saturday. It was, like, last fall, and it's four on four. You can only play two times in a row, and it's like, games to 11 by, like, twos and threes. It's like, it's fast, right? And I mean, I was, like, boxing out. I was on the floor. Some of these guys are, like, 60, and. And I went so hard that, like, as last couple games, like, I felt my back starting to go, and I was like, I don't care. Like, I can't lose these games, right? So I end up going, I think, eight or seven, and. Oh. But like, I was on the couch for, like, a week later because I just. I can't help myself that, like, I need to win, which is why maybe I just need to bring that to Tahoe or something. I bring it to the flip cup game, but.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you do. Yes. I got to witness that. All right, last question. Roback question. I'm wearing it right now. Roback.com promo code, take 20 off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, jogger shorts. Roback.com promo code. Take great golf stuff. If you're coming out, you should be watching the golf tournament. Tahoe. But if you're coming out, get some Roback. Zach, finish us off with a question for TJ.

[Zach]

How we doing, tj?

[Big Cat]

What's up?

[Zach]

What's up, man? I got a quick question for you. As someone who's very familiar with the ice rink, obviously I was curious, what sport would you consider harder to master and possibly more impressive between figure skating and sprinting?

[TJ Oshie]

Oh, so. Gosh. So skate sprinting on the ice.

[Zach]

So sprinting just like on a trail,

[PFT Commenter]

Like Olympic level sprinting versus figure skating, but Olympic level figure skating, but also Olympic level sprinting.

[Zach]

Yes.

[TJ Oshie]

I would say there's probably an insane amount of training that goes into the sprinting, but the things that figure skaters do on the ice. The best hockey player in the world wouldn't even come close. Like, not. Not remotely close. I mean, I would. Would prefer to be a sprinter over figure skater, personally, but I. I think figure skating at the Olympic level, I think it's. I think to me personally, it's. It's more impressive.

[Zach]

I appreciate that input as a professional. That means more than, you know.

[TJ Oshie]

Let's go. Do we have a bet going here?

[Big Cat]

Discussions with you guys, and sometimes guys

[Max]

take sides talking about sprinting on a track, by the way.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. One last question, tj. Who would you say is more well known in the global sense? I show speed or President Trump.

[TJ Oshie]

President Trump.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, thank you. No more questions. This is. We're just getting you involved in all of our internal stupid debates. So you sided with Zach on one of them and then with us on the other.

[TJ Oshie]

So we're okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we're one to one.

[TJ Oshie]

That was a reverse dunk.

[Zach]

You didn't have to do that.

[PFT Commenter]

I just wanted to get. You know, we had to get one back.

[Big Cat]

Have you ever tried?

[TJ Oshie]

So we got. Let's keep it going.

[Zach]

Let's.

[TJ Oshie]

Rubber masks.

[Big Cat]

If you were in a. A battle royale and you could pick four animals to be on your side, how early would you draft a single Hornet to be on your team?

[TJ Oshie]

One single Hornet?

[Big Cat]

Yes. One single Hornet. Yep.

[TJ Oshie]

It wouldn't be in my top hundred, I don't think.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

What's the color?

[Big Cat]

You have to say that. You could have just said, no, not my top four.

[TJ Oshie]

No, not my top four.

[Big Cat]

Not.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, no. It would take a while.

[Big Cat]

You're not thinking about. Hornets can sting you multiple times. And also, if somebody's allergic to a hornet, it's a good move.

[TJ Oshie]

Do they not. I thought they lose their stingers.

[Big Cat]

No, common. That's a common misconception. That would be a honeybee that would die. A hornet can go round after round after round.

[PFT Commenter]

What's the color of cheese, tj?

[TJ Oshie]

Orange.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I don't.

[Max]

That's not.

[Big Cat]

That's not even. On the board.

[Max]

On the board.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. All right, here's one.

[TJ Oshie]

Cheese.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Cheese. Cheese. We had a cheddar cheese. Yeah. We had a very long and very, like, mad debate about yellow or white, and I don't even remember which side

[Max]

I'm on is what I mean.

[Big Cat]

Yellow, I think.

[TJ Oshie]

I think if I. If I. If I really thought about it, I would assume white.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Yeah.

[Max]

Good answer.

[PFT Commenter]

Here's one that you shouldn't answer, but I'm gonna ask it anyway. Would you say titty fucking is underrated or overrated? Holy.

[TJ Oshie]

I'd say over.

[Max]

Yes. Everything's coming up max right now. This is my guy as I'm wearing this jersey.

[PFT Commenter]

This is great. Oh, this is great. Oh, man. Well, tj, you're the man. We can't wait to see you out there. Best of luck. And we're. We're excited and. Let's go. Let's go. Top. Let's go. Top 10 it.

[TJ Oshie]

Top 10.

[PFT Commenter]

Number one on the pickup line, Mo Norman.

[TJ Oshie]

Top 10. Let's do it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I'm gonna check out this Mo Norman guy. He looks like Rodney, dude.

[TJ Oshie]

He's unbelievable. I promise you, he's unbelievable.

[Big Cat]

It's a great Canadian golfer name, too. More. Oh, this guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got this.

[TJ Oshie]

Oh, unbelievable. I'm telling you, it's. It's my entire Instagram algorithm. Right now, it's just straight into mo. Norman.

[PFT Commenter]

I love it. All right. Thank you, tj. You're the best, man.

[TJ Oshie]

Thanks, boys. Thanks for having me.

[Big Cat]

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[PFT Commenter]

Okay, Fyre fest of the week, boys. Before we do that, I got something special for someone in the booth. Oh, Maxwell. A late birthday present. By the way. We went.

[Max]

Yeah. Pft.

[PFT Commenter]

Forgot.

[Big Cat]

That's really funny.

[PFT Commenter]

He, he forgot. And also when we went to the bar after the Pugs first loss of the season, which sucked. Shout out the team we played, they were better than us. The bouncer wished Max a birthday. A happy birthday.

[Big Cat]

That's tough.

[TJ Oshie]

Really good guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Like he was like, get that guy drunk. It's still his birthday.

[Big Cat]

Well, I did try to get Max drunk yesterday. So after the game I, I, I'm on the text thread. Unfortunately I've been on the DL for the Pug. So I sent over payment for beers because when I was on K's team last year was like beers after. I'll take care of some of that. I sent over beers after money for you guys. And then Max sent it back to me last night and said I was a bad guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, we got, we got fucking killed. And you. We had, we did two things. The Pugs are undefeated. Were undefeated. Were undefeated. The Pugs were undefeated. And this was our last game of the regular season. So we have playoffs next week. We were six zero.

[Big Cat]

You don't want to be perfect.

[PFT Commenter]

Agreed. But two things that went against us last night. One, PFT talked about post game beers before we won the game. And two, for some reason we warmed up before the game, which we've never done in the history of the Pugs. And then we got absolutely blasted. And every single person I would say had a bad moment. Like literally it takes a team to play. As bad as we played, it was that. It was just every single person did something at some point where you're like,

[Max]

I think Hank was all right.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank was all right. Yeah, I think Hank, you didn't drop a ball.

[Max]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hank and Colton.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Cole made the last out.

[Max]

Well, he hit that ball, that softball.

[PFT Commenter]

But we all were, it was, it was a team effort in the loss and it did hurt a little bit because in the first inning I got on base and the first baseman was like, hey, like this entire team were bad. We're Badgers. We just graduated and we're huge fans. And then we just got fucking boat race.

[Max]

We play softball in a league full of 25 year old white kids. They are all going to be fans of yours.

[PFT Commenter]

But I said, but what did I say in the post game beers? I think it might be time that we start playing more age appropriate because I think we're, we're on the, everyone on the team is on the wrong side of 30 and we're, we are the slowest team. The speed, the team speed that we play against is shocking. It's really just because they're. We're just looking at our past. We're looking at the same guys that we are just 10 years younger. 20 years for me.

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Either way.

[Max]

Yeah. We can't play off one loss. And we're like.

[PFT Commenter]

I agree.

[Max]

We're like, we're too old for this league.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, it's one loss.

[Big Cat]

It's good. You don't want to be. We can talk to Tjoshi about this. But you don't want to win the President's trophy.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no.

[Big Cat]

You don't want to be. You don't want to be undefeated in the regular season.

[Max]

We said that.

[Big Cat]

We said that.

[PFT Commenter]

That was.

[Max]

That was a big.

[Big Cat]

Like, I've always said that about. About the dozen too. It's like, you. You don't want the regular season championship. It only matters in the playoffs. And that's real.

[PFT Commenter]

Also, not to. Sorry, but that's not to point fingers, but I'm pretty sure that was the first time that ump had ever umped a game because I've never seen a field set up the way he set up. The first base was a hundred million miles away from home plate.

[Big Cat]

I love that.

[PFT Commenter]

And. And the pitcher's mound was. Was. I was throwing from. From a thousand feet away. I. I re. I changed the pitching mound after the third inning.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Because I kept on getting called. I missed ball and strike by about 6 inches short. Like, what would you guys say 20 times in a row? And then finally someone. Our team was like, I think the pitcher's mount is way too deep. And I moved it. And then I was just throwing strikes.

[Big Cat]

They didn't say anything about it.

[PFT Commenter]

He just set up the field incorrectly.

[Big Cat]

He's like, you know better than I do.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Trevor Bauer tried to change the pitchers mount a few times.

[Max]

They.

[Big Cat]

They threw him in jail for it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. It was like the opposite of the Hoosiers measuring the rim. Like, if they measured the rim. If they measured the pitchers mountain be like, see, it's not anything like we've ever played on either way.

[Big Cat]

All right, I won't.

[PFT Commenter]

We're going to the playoffs.

[Big Cat]

I'm not going to send beer money before games anymore.

[PFT Commenter]

We're 6 and 1.

[Big Cat]

Disagree with Max's assessment. It makes me a bad guy.

[Max]

Well, I sent you the Ven. I sent you the Venmo back.

[Big Cat]

You accepted.

[PFT Commenter]

You.

[Big Cat]

You accepted it first.

[Max]

Well, I told you. Well, I told you at first. I was like, we don't. We don't do beers after we lose. We still did do beers after we Lost beers.

[PFT Commenter]

They were sad.

[Max]

They were sad beers. And then you were like, well, I'm going to send it to you anyway. And I thought it was rude. It was rude to decline at that point, because I already tried to decline.

[Big Cat]

I sent it to you way earlier in the day. What are you talking.

[Max]

I know, but I tried to say that, well, don't send it to me because we don't do it. Don't send it to me until we win. And you said, well, if you lose, then just send it back. Fact or fiction?

[PFT Commenter]

Did you say that I didn't deserve.

[Big Cat]

I don't remember if I say that, but I did.

[Max]

And I sent it back and I said, but I didn't know.

[Big Cat]

I did.

[PFT Commenter]

Not with a.

[Max]

No bad guy. And then you immediately went to the group chat and said, did we win knowing that we lost?

[Big Cat]

I didn't know.

[PFT Commenter]

And we didn't. We didn't deserve free beers. We did actually get free beers because also my best friend owns the bar. So that was. It was sad. Beers. Shout out. Dave. All right, this has nothing to do with what I was about to say.

[Max]

That was a hun. That was obviously getting brought up at some point.

[PFT Commenter]

Of course. Of course, of course. But it's good to lose as a team. There's no. There's no finger pointing. We sucked.

[Max]

And there was. And, yeah, there was. There was no internal fighting.

[PFT Commenter]

No, we just were like, hey, we suck.

[Max]

Yeah. Yeah, it was good.

[PFT Commenter]

Bad things happen. Except for Hank. He was awesome. Max, would you like your birthday gift?

[Max]

I forgot that. That's how we got here.

[PFT Commenter]

This is a custom one of one made by Big Dom. Philadelphia Eagles jersey and the back 99 meatballs.

[Big Cat]

That's incredible.

[PFT Commenter]

Incredible. Shout out, Big Dom. What a guy. He sent it to us.

[Max]

Oh, this thing.

[PFT Commenter]

This thing is. I need you wearing this on game day. He's putting it on.

[Max]

Go.

[PFT Commenter]

Go back in the booth. Yeah, no, it's. That's an actual, like, on field. Like, they had. They. He went into the training room and was like, I need a 99 meatballs.

[Big Cat]

That's pretty good.

[PFT Commenter]

He's so pumped. Go put it on.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah. Tarps off.

[PFT Commenter]

He's doing it behind the camera.

[Big Cat]

Max, put it on in front of the camera.

[PFT Commenter]

Savvy. Savvy move.

[Big Cat]

He's got a private crack show.

[PFT Commenter]

He took his shirt off and behind the cameras. All right, he's putting it on. Get back in the booth. Let's see in the booth.

[Big Cat]

Oh, man, you look like Jason Kelsey.

[PFT Commenter]

You look so awesome.

[Max]

Come on.

[Big Cat]

This is Jason Kelsey.

[PFT Commenter]

Actually come out here and show everyone.

[Max]

No, this is how it's supposed to be.

[PFT Commenter]

It's supposed to fit that way. Dude, you gotta be. That's gotta be your big game jersey.

[Big Cat]

Now we can't get grabbed.

[Max]

I. I feel strong. You say this doesn't fit.

[TJ Oshie]

I think.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, it looks great.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you're big.

[PFT Commenter]

This is like this.

[Max]

If I was.

[PFT Commenter]

Go, go talk to the mic. Go talk to the mic. Go, go.

[Max]

If I was shooting up on game

[PFT Commenter]

day, this is what it would look like. Go back in the booth. Go back in the booth if you look awesome.

[Big Cat]

Big gay meatballs.

[PFT Commenter]

99 meatballs is such a good jersey. That's a jersey. You see, like, someone takes a picture of it as like, dudes rock. So, like, he's. It's. It's Max throwing up on himself at the link. And they're like, look at this 99 meatballs guy. Shout out, Big Dom.

[Max]

This jersey is awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

I love it. Incredible birthday jersey.

[Max]

Let me see how fat I look. Oh, no, I look good.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you do look.

[Max]

I look really good.

[TJ Oshie]

Hell yeah.

[Max]

This thing is awesome. I love. Oh, what a jersey.

[PFT Commenter]

What. What a day.

[TJ Oshie]

This thing's sick.

[Big Cat]

You know, is there any possibility that if you have a bad game when you're wearing the 99 Meatballs jersey, that the. That the jersey doesn't look as cool?

[Max]

Do we have any pads? I feel like it would look better if I was wearing pads.

[PFT Commenter]

I think you might have to start going full pads on Sunday.

[Big Cat]

Maybe helmet. Maybe pants too.

[Max]

Yeah, yeah, dude. Like, I feel like I'm playing in the game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you look like it. And you're 99 meatballs. Yeah, I think you got to eat 99 meatballs now too. Hank your Fire fest.

[Hank]

Did you buy a field goal post?

[PFT Commenter]

I said, Hank your fire fest.

[Hank]

Yeah, this.

[TJ Oshie]

Well, this.

[Hank]

This was like, I came into work today and it was like a finance guy and one, like one of the people that managed our building, and they're like, where should we put the field goal post? And I was like, stop it. Like, do you think you'll use it to kick field goals?

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Hank]

In our gym?

[PFT Commenter]

Can I sidebar with PFT real quick? I'd like to sidebar with pft. I'd like to have a one on one conversation with pfd. No one else can say anything.

[Big Cat]

Can I just say, first of all, that this is kind of. I asked for a field goal post 2 1/2 years ago and you guys laughed at me.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, no, here's the thing. For good reason.

[Big Cat]

You Guys said, absolutely. I've wanted.

[PFT Commenter]

Correct.

[Big Cat]

That is the correct answer. And that is the correct answer.

[PFT Commenter]

When you asked for a field goal, it was going to be just a manufactured field goal from the field goal company. This is a field goal post from the San Diego Chargers old practice facility.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Hank]

Oh, my God. It's not even the Qualcomm.

[PFT Commenter]

It's from the practice facility. San Diego Chargers practice facility. What part of that do you not understand?

[Big Cat]

If we were just trying to get a. It's so.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, so here's what I've been struggling with. I've been. TJ the producer yak, mostly sports, has been texting me this because he's been in contact with someone who. Who is trying to procure the field goal post. And I've said no to it probably 15 times, but every time I say no to it, the little devil on my shoulder says, but it would be sweet. And then finally last night, he was like, hey, I need an answer. This guy keeps asking. And I was like. And you said, no. Hold on. I actually text him. I said, no, we don't want it. And then I took a beat and I said, we gotta have it.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. I'm glad that we're finally getting one. Yeah, I'm very glad.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, what's your question?

[Max]

Where do. This office is big? This office is not field goal post.

[Big Cat]

Max, shut the up for a second. Big cat. Is it. Which post is it? Crossbar, upright? All the above.

[PFT Commenter]

It's the whole thing. Okay, good.

[Max]

Does that answer yes? That furthers my point of my question.

[Big Cat]

This is. I'm telling you, this is going to pay for itself.

[Max]

Where does it go?

[PFT Commenter]

Somewhere that's a problem for later.

[Big Cat]

I'm hearing a lot of no's or a lot of reasons why we shouldn't do things. How about some why we should?

[PFT Commenter]

Zach, Question.

[Zach]

Indoor, outdoor.

[PFT Commenter]

Don't know.

[Max]

Okay, here's the thing. We don't own the outdoor.

[Big Cat]

Max.

[Memes]

Why do you care?

[Max]

I'm just. We're just. We're just talking this out.

[Memes]

Let PFT get his field goal.

[Big Cat]

Let me get my.

[Max]

Where does it go?

[Big Cat]

How about this? What about on the roof? And then we put a big net behind it?

[PFT Commenter]

Mm. Mm.

[Big Cat]

I think about that.

[PFT Commenter]

Mm.

[Big Cat]

The guy gets one birthday celebrated. Now he's like, oh, no one can tell me anything.

[PFT Commenter]

What if we just put it.

[Max]

Hank. Hank and I are just the adults in the room right now.

[PFT Commenter]

What if we put it as I'm

[Max]

wearing a 99 meatball jersey.

[PFT Commenter]

What if we put it flush against an exterior Wall. So, like, almost, like, super glue it up against the wall, and then you just practice it. It's like. It's like hitting a tennis ball.

[Big Cat]

Initially, my ideas were to put it, like, put it in the gym against one of the back. One of the back walls.

[TJ Oshie]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

Would be a good place to put it. That way you could kick off of the turf that we've got. And the turfs getting better.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

You put it on the turf. You can put it on the roof. You can put in the parking lot, which would be cool.

[PFT Commenter]

To the loading dock.

[Big Cat]

Loading dock.

[PFT Commenter]

This studio. What if we just had it?

[Big Cat]

I bet you we should get two.

[PFT Commenter]

If we. If we take it apart and put it back together in this studio, I think it might be able to fit.

[Big Cat]

We should get two. We could. Never heard of one.

[Max]

Cut it up and just put it. Put little pieces in random parts of the office.

[Big Cat]

No, that's 45ft tall.

[PFT Commenter]

Is that tall?

[Big Cat]

It would fit against the back wall of the gym.

[PFT Commenter]

Also, we could cut the post or the, you know, the center part and make it just on the ground. Yeah, it's not 45ft tall. It'd be, like 35ft tall.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And then you could just. You could do it like LSU style. You just use the side goal post, and then you just put an H bar. That way you use some of the entire goalpost space going all the way down to the ground as opposed to starting it 10ft up in the air.

[PFT Commenter]

I think, Hank, the problem that you're having is.

[Hank]

The problem that you're having is you have too many enablers in your life.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. The problem that you're having, Hank, is that we don't ask, like, what we're gonna do with something. We just get it, and then we figured out the rest of the.

[Hank]

But you're getting something that doesn't even fit.

[Big Cat]

It does.

[Hank]

Also on the earth, in our. In our office, which is the only thing we can control.

[Max]

I just did a rough, rough math of how much 45ft is. That's sick. That's about six WEMBY's tall.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, thanks. I didn't realize how.

[Max]

But that's so tall. Think of six. Think about looking at one Wemby and then think of looking at six in a row of Wemby.

[Big Cat]

We also have. We've got a basketball hoop. Hoop currents in that gym.

[PFT Commenter]

Four and a half basketball hoops.

[Big Cat]

Yeah,

[Max]

six Wendy's makes way more sense.

[Big Cat]

You know what, Max? It was your birthday yesterday.

[Max]

Wrong again.

[Big Cat]

When we recorded the show last day, we recorded the show was your birthday. I did get you a birthday present.

[PFT Commenter]

Feel Gopuls.

[Big Cat]

No, it's. It's. It's sitting out right by your desk right now.

[Max]

There's a rabbit out there.

[Big Cat]

No, it's not a rabbit. Go and grab it. It's. It's a big tube. It says my name. It says the address.

[PFT Commenter]

Can we just go back to this field goal post thing for a sec? Sure.

[Hank]

I have another.

[Big Cat]

There's actually no present out there. Just wanted to get him out of the room.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Nice. Yeah, because that Wemby thing was stupid. Holy.

[Big Cat]

Dude.

[PFT Commenter]

Basketball hoop is 10ft.

[Memes]

I think it might be seven Wembies, too.

[PFT Commenter]

So he didn't even get it right. He didn't get the right. The Wemby's right?

[Big Cat]

No, there actually is one.

[PFT Commenter]

Why? Okay, he's opening it in here. Just open in the other room. Open in front of a microphone in the other room. I don't.

[Memes]

Like I'm in this room.

[PFT Commenter]

There's. Go, go in that room.

[Max]

You can't see it.

[Big Cat]

No, this is a good place.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Big Cat]

Just. Just sit. Just sit.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

Just sit. Open your present.

[PFT Commenter]

Open your present. Sit cross cross legged like a little, little boy on Christmas morning. Hank, we will figure it out. And if we don't, we'll just throw it in the river, Right?

[Big Cat]

Yeah. That's what you do.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And then we'll forget about it. And then. Pft. Will magnet fish one day and find it and be like, oh, I got a field go.

[Big Cat]

I got a field goal post. All right. So, Max, I don't like the shame

[PFT Commenter]

that Hank is putting on me.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's kind of a bummer.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it is a bummer. He's. He's. He's a vibe, vibe, killer right now.

[Big Cat]

Open it up.

[Hank]

I got more vibes to kill.

[PFT Commenter]

If you really.

[Hank]

I actually wasn't gonna bring this one up on the show, but I guess if we're doing vibe kills.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So it's your. Your best asset. What is this?

[Big Cat]

So this Max's favorite baseball player or one of his favorite baseball players actually hung up in a stadium.

[PFT Commenter]

Love this.

[Big Cat]

To commemorate him.

[PFT Commenter]

Love this.

[Big Cat]

Inside, it's Jason Worth.

[PFT Commenter]

Hell yeah.

[Big Cat]

Big Jason Worth banner.

[PFT Commenter]

That's actually sick.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. So you're welcome, Max. Happy birthday. I'm sorry that I missed your birthday the other day.

[PFT Commenter]

Now he's. And he's wearing his. His Phillies uniform.

[Big Cat]

This is the nationals, Jason.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay.

[Big Cat]

But it's a giant Jason Worth. I know that you love the guy, right? It's not the Guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's pretty cool, man. Pretty awesome.

[Hank]

Max, I also have a gift for you at my desk.

[Big Cat]

I did get it for your birthday. I'm sorry I didn't show up in time.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you not accept it?

[Big Cat]

Max, I'm.

[TJ Oshie]

I'm going to re.

[Max]

Gift it to the nationals fan.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay?

[Hank]

I have a. I have a gift for you at my desk as well.

[PFT Commenter]

What. What's the gift for, Max?

[Hank]

I want to go get it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, go get it.

[Big Cat]

A new set of golf clubs while

[Hank]

he goes out there.

[Big Cat]

Left handed golf club.

[Hank]

I'll kill the vibes. Go get it.

[PFT Commenter]

Go get it.

[Max]

Is there actually.

[Hank]

Yeah, go get it. It's also like a tube thing.

[Big Cat]

Happy birthday.

[Hank]

Another tube.

[Max]

Tube.

[PFT Commenter]

It's just tube of meat.

[Hank]

The Boise State turf is a outdoor turf. Yeah, the outdoor turf has those little black beads.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm aware.

[Hank]

That get everywhere. Mm, that's a problem.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank, can I. Can I tell you about this new technology they came out with recently? It's called a vacuum cleaner.

[Hank]

Oh, this.

[PFT Commenter]

What's the problem? So it's a vacuum cleaner, dude.

[Big Cat]

Why don't you just tell people, like, if you use. If you use cleats on that turf, you gotta. You take the cleats off before you exit the turf.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you gotta know it's.

[Hank]

It's that well put. People running the. The basketball court just gonna be black beads.

[PFT Commenter]

We'll just get Dustbusters, dude. Well, actually, you know what? We'll probably get a Dustbuster ad deal. Yeah, this is probably gonna pay for itself also. Can't you just take the black beads off? Off? Potentially, but can you just, like, not shake it out?

[Big Cat]

Do you think that would work still? Like, would you be able to run in it? Yeah, if it didn't have the beads, why not?

[Hank]

Because I think that's.

[Big Cat]

I think cushioning parts.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I think this is. Again, these are problems for later and not right now. I buy the things, then we figure it out.

[Big Cat]

I love watching Max open presents. I could watch this all day.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, what do you got there, Max? Are you talking to a mic? Is that mic on?

[Max]

Is this work memes?

[PFT Commenter]

No, it's not on.

[Hank]

On.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, now is it on? No.

[Max]

Yep, now it's on.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. Okay, first part of the present is.

[Max]

Oh, I just got a text.

[Memes]

Oh, oh.

[PFT Commenter]

Breaking moose. Breaking moose. Breaking moves. Dom just texted me. Not big Dom, Medium Dom, my assistant, because he's live listening to the show. He said the part of the turf we were getting doesn't have black beads.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Suck my dick, Hank.

[Hank]

Sorry.

[Big Cat]

That's.

[Memes]

Suck it, Hank.

[Big Cat]

Sold.

[PFT Commenter]

Shout out pca.

[Max]

These ball markers are cool.

[PFT Commenter]

What did you get home? You got them.

[Max]

This is for everyone. This one is right handed on left handed on the other side. So when you're playing one one side, you can let other people know also what you're playing.

[PFT Commenter]

Nice.

[Max]

Very cool. This one is a Phillies ball marker with also me in pigtails.

[Big Cat]

Cream team. I don't know what this is.

[Max]

Oh, Wisconsin Lighthouse.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so these are. These are gifts for everyone but Max.

[Max]

No, I got one.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I know, I know. Cool.

[Max]

Here's Blake, your dog now.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank, did you buy these? No.

[Hank]

Shout out to light work engraving.

[Max]

Charge them.

[Big Cat]

Oh, that's cool.

[Hank]

Light work golf on.

[PFT Commenter]

Why is such a big box for?

[Max]

Oh, this one marker. This is a half jets half interlocking fingies for memes.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, nice.

[Memes]

Yeah.

[Max]

And. Oh, Duke bounced.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, wait, what is.

[Max]

These are awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, my God. It's the Braylon Mullen shot. This is awesome.

[Big Cat]

Wait, this one, it's got. This has Blake on one side and it's got Leroy on the other. That's awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

Awesome. Dude, look at this one.

[TJ Oshie]

Look at.

[PFT Commenter]

It's a brilliant Mullen shot.

[Max]

The Zach one is cream team on one side and then it's four Baconator fries, 20 nuggets, two chicken sandwich, two concrete mixers, two double cheeseburger, two large fries, 20 nuggets.

[PFT Commenter]

I love it. Thank you, Hank. Incredible. We're just giving time.

[Max]

Yeah. This is a great gift.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Hank, I got you a field goal post.

[Hank]

Shout out, shout out to. It's. It's like lightweight. L I T E work golf on Instagram and then.

[Max]

Oh, and then more and then some golf clubs for Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay.

[Hank]

Oh, there's golf clubs.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, that's weird.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Never saw that coming. All right, do. So what are the. Do you have another vibe killer? Hank, are you doing your fire.

[Big Cat]

That's it. That's it.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you have a fire fest?

[Hank]

Oh, yeah, I do.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, give us the fire fest. Is. Are you going to use that blade?

[Hank]

No, probably not. Oh, firefights dropped my style. Blue coffee on the ground.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Cat]

Now we have to replace this entire entire turf in the studio.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Amazon, by the way, 20 off all cold brew for until Sunday. So we're running a start of summer. Stella Blue coffee. Deal. Amazon. Go to Amazon. Best cold brew, you put it in the the fridge and you just have cold brew all week. You get a pitcher put in the fridge. Boom, boom, done. Cold brew. So good.

[Hank]

My fire fest of the week is that and this is going to be a little, maybe a little out of touch, I don't know. But I, I, I own a condo and the woman that lives in there previously did a bunch of work to it. Swedish woman. So it's all this Swedish that I don't know anything about.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not like, like meatballs.

[Hank]

Yeah, like Swedish designs.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Hank]

Swedish design.

[PFT Commenter]

Max just literally his ears perk.

[Hank]

And there's people like what these like automatic shades that you just push a button that goes up, push button that goes down. The other day, the shade that goes up so I can get out onto my balcony. I click to go up. I heard like a little like motor malfunction and it just stopped.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

So it's, it's stuck. I can't get outside. I was trying to troubleshoot it myself. I found like a plug at the very top of the ceiling. I grabbed a chair and I was on my tippy toe on the chair fell off, which like falling by yourself one kind of scary. And then when you could die when, then you realize that you're okay. It's like even more embarrassing

[Big Cat]

now. Is there any chance that the spiders got into the motor and they're preventing it from rolling up now?

[Hank]

I have not ruling out any options. And then I ended up getting up to the thing, plugging it in, plug it back in, did nothing. So all that, all that effort it for nothing. And then I'm trying to basically find this company and get them to come look at it. And it's, it, it was a like 4 hour phone call process yesterday just to get like an answer and hopefully get someone and I don't know the model, the design because I didn't install it myself and there was like no paperwork or whatever. So it's like I was talking to the company, they're like, what, what's this? What's this? I'm like, I don't know. And they're like, we can look at it. We might not be able to do shit.

[PFT Commenter]

It's a great.

[Hank]

So it's, it sucks.

[PFT Commenter]

Do we need to get you a life alert maybe in case you start falling?

[Hank]

Yeah, I mean if I'm falling off chairs for sure.

[TJ Oshie]

How about.

[PFT Commenter]

How bad was the fall?

[Hank]

It was, it was pretty bad. I mean I was fine.

[PFT Commenter]

It was pretty scary. In that moment, you're scared.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I do think that there should be a service where if you buy a house and somebody's done stuff to the house, like customized it, it that you have like almost a caretaker for the house that will Live with you for the first week to show you how everything's done or just, like, a pamphlet.

[PFT Commenter]

A pamphlet has everything.

[Big Cat]

A lot of times a pamphlet doesn't have. Because I actually had. I had a similar situation where my. My curtains wouldn't raise up after, like, one time raising them up earlier. And then I was trying to figure out how to make it work. Couldn't figure it out. And then after, like, 20 different days of, like, spending all day on Google trying to figure out how to work these damn things, there should be somebody that looks after the house that tells you, like, they're a buffer zone. They stay there a week before the person moves out, and then a week with you after you move in, just to let you know what this house likes, what it doesn't like.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I'd agree. It'd be good service. Say you could just maybe have someone learn everything about the house.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Farm it out. The custodian of the house. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, well, I'm sorry for your. Your. Your fall, Hank.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And fall. And then my balcony access is. Is compromised.

[PFT Commenter]

But again, do you know what fixes all this? Field goal post.

[Hank]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

So congrats.

[Hank]

Thank you.

[PFT Commenter]

I actually, we should maybe just name it Henry Lockwood's field goal post. The fact that you are pretending like you won't be chipping balls through that field goal post within the first week is insane.

[Hank]

You haven't answered where it's going.

[PFT Commenter]

We're gonna find out.

[Hank]

Yeah, because there's not an answer.

[PFT Commenter]

It's called a cliffhanger in the business. Okay? The fans are gonna be like, oh, my God, I have to tune in for season two. How tall is where the field goal post goes?

[Big Cat]

How tall is the gym? The gym ceiling.

[PFT Commenter]

It's about six and a half wembies.

[Big Cat]

Okay. So it should fit.

[Max]

Idiot. I was texting Big Dom.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, nice. All right. Pft.

[Big Cat]

Cool. Well, first of all, sorry for initially missing your birthday, Max. I also forgot another important birthday on Wednesday. It was. It was Jaden's mom's birthday. I forgot about that. So shout out. Ms. Jackson, when do you.

[TJ Oshie]

When you.

[Hank]

When do you give up?

[Big Cat]

I've hit so many more. I've hit probably 70 more birthdays than you have this year.

[PFT Commenter]

But. But you've missed way more than I. Yeah, he's. He's 100%.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I don't think. Hank. Like, that's the thing is, like, if you're not a birthday guy, you. You usually don't wish somebody a birthday on a day that's not their Birthday. That's not a mistake. That happens to normal people, but it's happened to me, like, six times.

[Hank]

I did do that to my dad

[Big Cat]

last year, so I feel. Yeah, that's true. Also, after that episode, we talked about this off the air. We probably should have brought it up on the air big. And I got a text from Max, home of the other day.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Where Max was like, hey, guys, when I go on the road, I'm playing tournaments. I. I let episodes build up so I don't really stay on top of all the. The PMTs. And then I catch up all at once. And I was wondering why everybody at the PGA Championship kept saying Happy Birthday to me when it wasn't my birthday. He was very confused by that, which he then found out after he got back. And then I was like, yeah, Max, sorry about that. I think maybe I screwed up, but it was your half birthday, but that might not be right either. He goes, yeah, no, that's not right either. So, yeah, that was pretty bad. That was a bad situation.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. It's just. I mean, God bless Max, because he is. He's the best, and he's such good friend of the show, but, like, between this and the homosexuals and this and the meatballs and the perverts and the happy birthday when it's not his birthday, we're just. We just put him through hell.

[Big Cat]

I don't think he minds the perverts.

[Hank]

Probably.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Still. But it's got to be a little weird to have, like, multiple people wish you happy birthday when you're nowhere near your birthday and you can't figure out

[Big Cat]

why that's actually, like. It would be a good prank to pull on somebody if it was intentional.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. Right.

[Big Cat]

But it wasn't intentional.

[PFT Commenter]

But now to think maybe you're losing it. It and being like, wait, why are people saying happy birthday with no context?

[Big Cat]

Yes. Is so if there's somebody that you hate, just the worst thing you can do is spread a vicious rumor that it's their birthday when it's not actually their birthday.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

So, yeah, I've been picking up the pieces from a lot of birthday mistakes this week. And then the other fire fest.

[Hank]

And did Jane reach out and tell. And how did you find out about his mom?

[Big Cat]

I just. I saw a lot of people wishing her a happy birthday yesterday. Yeah, no, Jane was busy. He was. He was at OTAS throwing dots yesterday. Then the other fire fest. This might seem also a little out of touch, but it's. It's real and it's something I'm dealing with. I recently became a pool owner. And buddy, let me tell you what, Owning a pool is so much work that you don't think that it's going to be when it comes to cleaning it out. Like, yeah, I got a pool guy. But there's a lot of stuff they don't tell you about that you have to do in between pool guy visits. Like, the pool guy doesn't live at the house. The pool guy stops by once every couple weeks just to top things off. But you gotta, like, figure out the motors. You got to figure out. It's a lot. It's a lot. And so it's never been something I'm from. I didn't grow up in a house with a pool. Never had a pool before. I know a lot of people do have pools growing up. This is all completely foreign to me. So I'm just day to day. The pool is like, the pool is my baby. Like, Hank's got his kids on the golf course. I'm just trying to get from sun up to sundown, making sure this pool stays alive. Life and doing, you know, trial and error, figuring out everything that I can to keep this pool in the. In the correct zone. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

What do you say, Hank?

[Hank]

Don't you just. What, You've seen a big net, so

[Big Cat]

that's part of it. Yeah. Getting a net. I got a net. Got a net.

[Max]

Oh, get the robot.

[Big Cat]

Got. I got the vacuum. Yeah, Sharky, I call them.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you know what I. That here's something you got to probably be ready for with the pool is. Is potentially having to save wildlife because I saved a chipmunk's life on Sunday.

[Big Cat]

I did that. I did that with a frog. But then we also lost another frog. Like, I found a dead frog in the pool too. So it's like it. It is really. It's a lot of responsibility. Yeah.

[Max]

Zach's an expert back here, by the way. He was just saying everything that you need.

[Big Cat]

What do I need? Because I got the. I got the vacuum. I call him sharky. I got the net that I've got the COVID And then I've got like this pump that's supposed to go on top of the COVID to get rid of water when it rains. But that thing hasn't been working. Every time I try to plug it in, it blows all the outlets outside. So what else do I need?

[Zach]

You just gotta get like the pH strips in the shock and the chlorine, and then it'll tell you how much chemicals put into the Pool. You want to stay on top of that, make sure a lot of people aren't peeing in it. You'll be good.

[Big Cat]

Is that like, that. That guy Brian Johnson? You test it and you check out the biome?

[Zach]

Pretty much, yes.

[TJ Oshie]

But it.

[Zach]

It's practical here in the pool and not in his.

[Big Cat]

Let's be honest. Like, my pool has a mandatory. You will pee in this pool.

[Zach]

Oh, yeah, that's totally fine. You just got to up the shock a little bit.

[Max]

What's wrong with peeing in the pool?

[Big Cat]

Nothing.

[PFT Commenter]

I've told my kids. Like, they'll say, hey, do I. Like, I have to go to the bathroom? I'm like, is it pee? And they're like, yeah, it's like, pool, Arizona.

[Max]

I peed in that pool, like, 30 times, dude.

[PFT Commenter]

I pee. I peed in every single pool I've ever been in my entire life.

[Zach]

Life.

[Max]

So you're anti peeing in the pool growing up?

[Zach]

Peeing in the pool's ass. Whooping. Yeah, I'm out on peeing in the pool.

[PFT Commenter]

How do they know? Yeah, he's like, if you're just. Are you whipping your dick out?

[Zach]

No, but if you're, like, a little kid, you know, when they're peeing in

[Max]

the pool, it's like, what's the problem?

[PFT Commenter]

What are you doing?

[Big Cat]

It's more about, like, this guy hasn't gotten out of the pool all day, so, yeah, he must be peeing.

[Max]

Yeah, but what's the problem with being in the pool?

[Zach]

Look, I don't see a real problem with that. I just. That's just what I was told growing up, hey, don't piss me.

[Max]

But, like, as far as, like, pool owner, what. How does that change your pool?

[Zach]

Your piss? Yeah, do your thing.

[Max]

No, no, no, no, no, no. You were. You were saying that you have to switch things more often if there's pee in the pool.

[Zach]

The peak. And I mess with the ph bounce in the pool if there's a lot of pee. So then you just have to add a little bit extra shock, sometimes a little bit of chlorine. But you'll just take it with the strips, and you can take it to the pool guy, like a pool store, and they'll do a little water test on and be like, hey, use this, this, and this.

[Big Cat]

You got too much piss in your.

[Zach]

And then don't open your eyes for a couple hours.

[Big Cat]

Balance it out.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

And then Blake is having some issues with the pool, too. Like, he doesn't like me in the pool when I go in and he Comes over, he tries to like, save me and like pull me to shore every time. Which I guess is good instincts.

[PFT Commenter]

Probably thinks you're a chipmunk, but he

[Big Cat]

might think I'm a chipmunk. But in reality, when he, that big ass dog jumps into the pool and he just swims over to you with his paws, you just get scraped. Giant scrapes all up and down your body. So there's a. There's a lot that we're going, that we're going through, but I'm confident that, you know, we'll come out the other side. It's just, you know, I was not ready to be a father to a pool. And they don't give you a book when you get one.

[PFT Commenter]

Need a book. Need a pool book. Okay. My fire fest is. I'm now against my will into Pokemon. And I don't think I have the brain capacity for it. I was thinking about it. So my son is into Pokemon. He wants. He's collecting cards. I got duped, by the way, the first time, which was a. All time. You're a. I bought some on Amazon and they showed up. And apparently this is what people do is they buy the Pokemon packs, the real ones. They take out the best cards and they resell them. I bought the resold one. So I just had a pack of just like, I don't even know what a generic Pokemon would be.

[Big Cat]

Snorlax, Squirtle, I don't know.

[Zach]

Yeah, he just bought a box of bulk. Yeah, that's tough.

[PFT Commenter]

So whatever. We got over that Shout out Spider, he had a bunch of Pokemon cards. He gifted some to my, to my son. But I want to, like, when your kid gets into something, you want to share it with them. You want to, you want to be involved in it.

[TJ Oshie]

It.

[PFT Commenter]

I just don't know if I have the brain capacity to understand Pokemon, to know what's important, to understand how to play. Like, I have. I'm. I'm tapped out. I got. I. I remember stupid sports things. I got, you know, over a hundred, you know, Grateful Dead songs. I can, I can recognize after like the first three seconds, I got like all this shit in my brain, you know, stupid random trivia from, from wrestling in the 90s. Pokemon is just not. I have no space for it.

[Big Cat]

You got to get into it when you're younger to be able to. That's how I feel about being a car guy. It's like, if you don't learn this stuff when you're in your teens or twenties, it's gone Right. You have no hope.

[PFT Commenter]

So. I don't know. Zach. You're a Pokemon guy.

[Zach]

You got to just clear some cash up there because it will be fun.

[PFT Commenter]

But how do I. Where do I start? Watch the show.

[Zach]

Yes. The T. The cartoon.

[PFT Commenter]

But where do I start the show.

[Zach]

The show. The show is a good place to start.

[PFT Commenter]

The show is where I should start.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Zach]

I think you guys could enjoy that.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Zach]

Weekend.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. So then. But how many Pokemon are there?

[Zach]

There's a. There's thousands.

[Hank]

There's really. There's. There's 151.

[PFT Commenter]

What?

[Hank]

Before the expansion era.

[Zach]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

There was an expansion era.

[Zach]

I feel like a lot of the cards that some might be open aren't going to be the 151 though.

[Hank]

That's when. That's when.

[Big Cat]

That's.

[Hank]

I was a 151er.

[Max]

You got to play the games.

[Hank]

Yeah. Get a Game Boy.

[Max]

The game. The Game Boy. The game.

[PFT Commenter]

Are so fun.

[Hank]

Pokemon Red.

[TJ Oshie]

Fire Red.

[Big Cat]

Pokemon Go to the polls. All right.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

We gotta get you. We gotta get you. We gotta get you on the switch. Playing Fire Red.

[PFT Commenter]

I am in on the card thing because it's very funny. Like my son's. I got him. Spider gave him all those cards and he went through all of them. And I guess he. He told me he was like a girl in his class is open for trading high level Pokemon cards for any cute Pokemon cards. So he went into school today with a bunch of cute Pokemon cards that he was gonna upgrade to the high level ones. Like. That's good. Good business. Found an inefficiency in the market. This chick is just looking for cute ones. You're gonna end up with some of the best Pokemon cards there are. So. I'm in on that. And. And seeing my son happy is very fun. But I don't know. I I. I just don't think I have it in me. I don't think I have it in me.

[Zach]

We go to the games.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Show. I'm gonna start with the show. I'm gonna give the show a shot and then we'll go from there.

[Memes]

You got to get a Pokedex.

[PFT Commenter]

The fuck? You guys have listed like 17 things that I have to do.

[Zach]

Gotta fill the Pokedex now. That's gonna be a day.

[Max]

Damn. You gotta catch them all. Maybe. Pokemon Go who's about some steps in.

[Big Cat]

Who's a bad guy?

[Hank]

Rocket power or rocket?

[Max]

Rocket League.

[Hank]

Rocket.

[Max]

Yeah. Team Rocket.

[PFT Commenter]

Is Pokemon Go still farming all our data?

[Hank]

Looks like they're blasting off again.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. So do I want it I don't want to do.

[Zach]

That's a personal.

[PFT Commenter]

She was a rocket.

[Hank]

I don't know if that's.

[Big Cat]

That sounds.

[PFT Commenter]

What age?

[Hank]

I don't know.

[Big Cat]

That sounds very horny.

[Hank]

I was. I was into it when I was a kid.

[PFT Commenter]

What's her name?

[Hank]

Jesse.

[Memes]

Jesse. Yeah, that's right.

[PFT Commenter]

She looks not age appropriate. Hank, we're looking at a cartoon. By the way, which one was a rocket?

[Hank]

I mean, Jesse.

[PFT Commenter]

Which one?

[Max]

One's a male, one's a female.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you gotta.

[Big Cat]

That's weird.

[PFT Commenter]

We gotta fix the term rocket Rocket that you use.

[Big Cat]

Her is her name Rocket Team Rocket.

[Max]

She's literally a rocket.

[PFT Commenter]

But is she also a rocket?

[Big Cat]

Because you've been using it.

[Hank]

You've been misappropriated 10 year old me,

[PFT Commenter]

but you've been misappropriating rocket.

[Big Cat]

True or false. How'd you feel about Ms. Frizzle when you were like 10 years old?

[Hank]

Wasn't into it.

[Big Cat]

Not into her.

[PFT Commenter]

I got canceled.

[Big Cat]

You got.

[Hank]

Tried to cancel me because I said that about Kim Possible.

[Memes]

Ms. Frizzle.

[Zach]

All the way in.

[Big Cat]

You were in?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, all the way. All the way in. You inserted.

[Zach]

No, but in the bus.

[Big Cat]

In the what?

[Zach]

The bus. Magic school bus.

[Big Cat]

She back that thing up?

[Zach]

She can cast a spell on me.

[Big Cat]

What's. Did she have cannons?

[PFT Commenter]

Ms. Frizzle?

[Big Cat]

No, no cannons.

[PFT Commenter]

Not really.

[Big Cat]

She might have had cannons.

[Zach]

No, sneaky cannons. Had to hide them under the romper.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I think it was like you had to dress appropriate for school.

[PFT Commenter]

I'd like to see Ms. Frizzle on a Saturday night.

[Zach]

Let your hair down.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you know, she.

[Big Cat]

She actually lives in the school. Well, she lives in that bus.

[PFT Commenter]

She's wearing a tube top.

[Big Cat]

Why don't we take this bus inside you fortune.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, Zach finishes off my fireface.

[Zach]

This week is a quick one. It's more PSA to those who. Anyone who grew up playing the game who still continues to play the game. Listen, there's gonna be a time and a place where your friends try to convince you that it's time to move away from the console and go to the computer.

[PFT Commenter]

Ooh.

[Zach]

I'm here to just tell you guys, don't do it.

[Memes]

It.

[Zach]

I've been in the throes of tech support email hell for the better part of like nine weeks. I've never felt more disheartened. I've never been able to not play the game more in my entire life. They're going to tell you to do it and it's going to sound cool and you're going to want to be one of those guys who do it, don't do it guys. If anybody's cousins, kids, aunt, uncle, nephew. If you're trying to get them one or they want to get one, don't do it it.

[PFT Commenter]

So you're.

[Zach]

I'm so they. The other day via email which is actually insane. I tried to FaceTime the guy. He's not into that. He doesn't do text. It's only email which is an impossible way to communicate. Maybe the worst way to communicate with anyone quickly ever. We're doing open heart surgery on this computer. I'm not a tools guy. I'm not really a hardware tech guy. And he's like oh, it'll be easy. A couple screws, hand tight. You're good. This is an. It's an impossible task.

[TJ Oshie]

Help.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes, help. Help.

[Big Cat]

So what game in particular is it.

[Zach]

It's more so the.

[PFT Commenter]

The computer.

[Zach]

The hardware just not working.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Zach]

So it doesn't want.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you still have the console?

[Zach]

I. No, I'm. It's. It's right next to my bed. It's getting plugged in today and I'm never going back.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah we just. Why didn't you just.

[Zach]

I may burn. I may set this computer on fire and send him a video I like like a terrorist. I may like this guy. Oh my. If I could. Oh I want full docs. I want a full docs. I think about doing it all the time.

[PFT Commenter]

Have you checked your computer for beans? Zero beans in there. Are you sure?

[Zach]

I love that video.

[PFT Commenter]

Beans and computers.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Zach]

That guy Ross creation rocks.

[PFT Commenter]

So funny. All time video. All right. I'm sorry that you haven't been able to game. Is this why you've been going to sleep early?

[Zach]

Sounds silly. No, that's more of a lifestyle changes because I need you got to do that.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Zach]

You know I've been letting people down so.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Memes]

Is there a backup computer you can possibly use there?

[Zach]

That is true.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Like that someplace you could stream.

[Zach]

That is true.

[PFT Commenter]

Like in this studio when we want you to stream all your login.

[Zach]

That is true. We're gonna stream tomorrow which is a Friday. I don't. This will come out tomorrow so it'll be later in the day. So.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. So tune into the stream.

[Zach]

Yeah but just know if your friend says get a PC you stop hanging out with that friend. He's a. He's not. You're not real friends.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Zach]

He doesn't have your best interest in mind.

[Big Cat]

If you're a pcu. If you're PC native gamer that's okay. It's just about making the transition.

[Zach]

Yeah. Trans. It's about transitioning.

[PFT Commenter]

If you.

[Zach]

If you're born.

[Big Cat]

If you're born that way.

[Zach]

Yes. Yeah.

[Max]

I think he just says the PC doesn't work. Console works.

[Big Cat]

So. Okay, so even if you were. If you grew up with the PC, if that's how you've always been, Zach will look down at you, actually, honestly,

[Zach]

you might have grown up wrong.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Zach]

You might have been guided from a young age. That's on your parents. That's bad parenting.

[Big Cat]

Right?

[Zach]

So look, that's. That's a thing. Therapy thing. That's a trauma thing. You deal with that. We're just talking hardware.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Gotcha. The hardware is the hardware.

[Zach]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. Good fire fest, boys. Shane. Shane, did you. Did you hear about the. The goal post?

[TJ Oshie]

Yeah, I didn't like some of the people's attitude about it.

[PFT Commenter]

Thank you. Thank you. A lot of naysayers, Shane.

[Max]

Where do you think we put this thing?

[PFT Commenter]

Doesn't matter.

[Big Cat]

Doesn't like it. Doesn't matter. As long as this part doesn't matter. I'm very happy that the only thing I'm a naysay about it is I'm. I'm frustrated that we didn't do this three years ago. Two and a half years ago.

[TJ Oshie]

Better now than never.

[Big Cat]

Better now than never. Yeah. Bolt up.

[Zach]

You know how many.

[TJ Oshie]

How many field goals Nate King missed in that thing?

[Zach]

You don't know.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[PFT Commenter]

Infinity. All right, numbers 11, 56, 21, 5, 13, 11 in a row.

[Memes]

John Brad Bronson.

[PFT Commenter]

11 in a row.

[Big Cat]

Been a problem. 69 we can talk about later. He's been a problem 7.

[PFT Commenter]

How about. How about. Wait, did anyone say 16? I'll say 16. It's what you. What you have to do to finish the job.

[Memes]

15.

[Big Cat]

I want to say.

[PFT Commenter]

No, you have to win 16 games. Right? Four by four.

[Max]

Come on.

[Memes]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, wow. Memes.

[Memes]

I did 15 in a row.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm switching to 44.

[Memes]

15 in a row, row. 15 in a row memes.

[PFT Commenter]

Winning 15 games will not.

[Memes]

15 in a row. 15 in a row.

[PFT Commenter]

But winning 15 games total will not get you the NBA.

[Memes]

15 in a row does this.

[PFT Commenter]

This is guaranteed.

[Big Cat]

Max, are you doing 44 for how tall the upright is or the Phillies pitcher?

[Max]

I think you can guess that Christopher Sanchez puts a respect on his name.

[Memes]

Is that it?

[PFT Commenter]

56.

[Max]

No, it's not.

[PFT Commenter]

It.

[Memes]

What it.

[PFT Commenter]

What was your.

[Max]

Is it actually 56?

[TJ Oshie]

What was your number?

[Max]

No, it's not.

[Big Cat]

I can see it's literally 56.

[PFT Commenter]

What was your number?

[Max]

No, it's not.

[TJ Oshie]

Is it actually 50?

[PFT Commenter]

What is your number? It's 56. What's the problem?

[Max]

I start at 56 and I switched to 44.

[PFT Commenter]

He switched to 44.

[Big Cat]

That's tough.

[Max]

You win some, you lose some.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, no. You actually never won.

[TJ Oshie]

Won this.

[Max]

I have.

[PFT Commenter]

You've never won this.

[Big Cat]

Who's won this?

[PFT Commenter]

Me and Jacob. Not me.

[Max]

Shout out Jacob.

[PFT Commenter]

Me and Jacob.

[Max]

That's tough.

[Big Cat]

That's real tough.

[Max]

I've done 56 every single

[PFT Commenter]

75. Anyone?

[Max]

75, anyone?

[PFT Commenter]

Anyone?

[Memes]

You should do another.

[Max]

Yeah, do one more. One more. That was really tough.

[PFT Commenter]

That's really tough.

[Max]

That was really tough.

[Big Cat]

Same numbers.

[PFT Commenter]

Your number.

[Max]

But I, I, I don't. I would have been more hurt if I disrespected Christopher Sanchez.

[PFT Commenter]

19.

[Max]

19.

[PFT Commenter]

19. All right, one more. Nope.

[Big Cat]

All right. Love you guys. Also, Happy birthday Paul Sky Birthday to Carmelo Anthony. Happy Birthday JFK. Happy Birthday, Mr. President Happy Birthday to Markel Folk Waltz Austin Reeves Puka Nakua. And Saturday, happy birthday to Billy Donovan and Manny Ramirez.

[Memes]

Every birthday Joe Namath. Sunday.

[Big Cat]

That's not. We have a show Sunday, so.

[Memes]

Well, no show comes out on Monday. When we record on Sunday, it's technically

[Big Cat]

a little bit early to say Joe names now.

[Memes]

We're in the future.

[Big Cat]

That's four days from now. Memes. Four days from now.

[Memes]

No, three. Or Today's Friday.

[Big Cat]

It's four days from now. Love you guys.

[PFT Commenter]

It.

[Max]

Sa.