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Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, I'll talk about going to see my Binghamton Bearcats take on the Hoyas. Plus, Jason Luckenfor will call in to talk about the Patriots win last night and also about some other big storylines around the league. And James Carville and Jeff Mock all in to make their weekly picks. But first, let's do some commerce, boys and girls.
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No, it's not.
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It's just weather. It is an introvert's dream.
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Do you know the significance of that quote? He was, I think it was on Letterman. He was dying and they did a whole show for him. And Letterman's like, do you have any words of wisdom? And he said, enjoy every sandwich.
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So I do. I enjoy that sandwich every time I get it. And every time I'm in Colombia ordering a sandwich or ordering lunch, that's what I get.
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B
You eat the fries on the way home?
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I ate the fries. No, I eat the fries first. I ate the fries first. The Tony Kornheiser show is on now. Alrighty then. We have Jeff Ma. We have James Carville. We have Jason Lochinfour. We will get to them. We're gonna start with the Binghamton Georgetown game.
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B
From calling it the game of the year.
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Who is calling it that? Well, we are many people. Okay, was Binghamton played great for half?
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Sure.
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I'll get to all of this. I just want to go in chronological order because I almost didn't get into the game a week and a half ago or so. I asked Harvey Stenger, the outgoing president of Binghamton University and my friend, I said, can we, can I get some tickets for that game? I'd like some tickets. Cause Michael and Liz and the boys wanted to go. Had they ever been to a college basketball game before? They'd been to Duke.
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B
Yes. So the big boys been to Cameron and the whole family. We were at a Georgetown game last year. We did not know it was parents weekend. So it was a little bit Harder to get some food for the kids. But we've been to Georgetown before.
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A
Food for the kids is an important concept that I'm going to deal with at some point in this open. So that. So Harvey gets five tickets for them and a ticket for me.
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B
Now, I think we could have bought them same day, but, yeah, I don't.
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A
Could have bought them from next to nothing. There were not more than 4,000 people in the gym. It seats 18,000. Yeah, they're not more than 4,000. And that's fine.
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Better than a Marlins game.
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That's. That's fine. It's fine. I don't. I don't claim that Binghamton is a big draw. Georgetown isn't even a big draw at Georgetown's. This is not their home facility. McDonough is. But they play here. This is where they play, you know, for almost all their games. Anyway, that's.
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B
Only one of them is a public ivy.
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A
That's right. Binghamton is a public ivy. Absolutely. So I'll get to all of these things. But when I say I have a ticket, it's not a ticket. As I understand a ticket. As I understand a ticket. At my age and with my experience and having been a sports writer for, I don't know, 50 years, a ticket is a piece of paper that you hold in your hand. And when you go to walk into a place that asks you to have a ticket, you show them this ticket, they rip it in half, and you are ushered into the gym. That's my life. Well, now there are no paper tickets. Now, Michael, explain what you did for me to have a ticket.
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What I did was I had to create a Ticketmaster account so we could download the ticket to your phone. I then had to take it off of maybe landscape. I had to turn on landscape mode so I could turn it sideways to add it to your Apple Wallet. So I knew before you left it was living on your phone. I had to show you. I moved Apple Wallet to the front of the screen.
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A
I don't know what Apple Wallet.
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B
I don't know.
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It doesn't matter. It's.
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Hold here.
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So I have this thing so now I can walk into the gym, I can get on my phone. And by the way, what happens to people that actually don't own phones? What happens to them? How do they get anywhere? So I have this thing on my phone. It's an orange ticket, says Georgetown, Binghamton. And I'm gonna display it.
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B
Syracuse Orange.
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A
Yeah. And they're gonna let me in. They're gonna let me in. Except I'm coming from PTI where I did the show, and I'm carrying my bag. I got the bag that I. Oh, sure, bring to work. And they say, you can't come in with that bag, sir. I go, what do you mean? We don't allow anybody in with bags. I said, well, what do I do? And they go, I don't know. But you can't come in with that bag. I don't know that there's a place to check the bag. I don't know. I've been told, Tracy told me yesterday that there are geniuses out there that bring portable bag holders that you rent for the night.
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D
Oh, for the game.
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A
Yeah, yeah. Brilliant idea. Brilliant. I didn't know about that.
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B
Something like that outside Nats Park.
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Somebody recognizes me. That's the great gift here. Somebody recognizes me and says, maybe I can help you. Says, well, you're media, aren't you? I said, well, I've always been media. Yes. And he walks me around the block to the media entrance. And they don't want to let me in with the bag because I don't have a media credential, right? Except five of the six people are standing there going, you know who the guy is? So they let me in. They let me.
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B
Fingers don't type anymore.
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They let me in. Good to be the kid with the bag. And I'm very grateful for this. I don't know where my seat is, but I run in to Michael and Liz and the boys. Now, please. I don't mean to impugn the character integrity of my grandchildren. I love my grandchildren, but it seems to me that that all grandchildren do, or small people do is eat. They go to games and eat.
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B
Well, to be fair, the game was happening during their dinner time, right?
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A
But I mean, got the sense that their participation in this event was eating. Like, they're not cheering. They don't know what's going on.
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B
Well, had you sat in your seat for more than, I don't know, five minutes at a time before you had to do a work event, you would notice that the big boy was trying to connect with you. Bootsy was watching intently and cheering in his own way. The little one, no idea where he was, was crying wildly because we forgot his headphones in the car. Luckily, Liz went up to the concourse level and shout out to shout out to the gym for having headsets that you could rent that are like, you know, protecting the kids ears. So he was bopping along getting french fries and chicken tendies.
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Right? And ice cream.
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Oh, yeah. And just dropping M and M's on the floor. And when I say the floor, I mean the floor.
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So that's what the boys do. And we have seats. We're in the front row. But it's not great because you're behind the bench. So it's hard to see.
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B
It was tough. It was tough for the kids to see.
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They couldn't see. I could barely see. But. So I'm watching the game. Binghamton does great. Yeah.
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Down by four something at the half.
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They were down five at the half, but they were down by three with 20 seconds to go in the first half against Georgetown. That's pretty good. That is very credible. And their big kid had gotten three fouls early and had to sit for like the last eight minutes of the first half. And they were still in again. They didn't win again. I didn't expect them win the game, but they covered. They lost by 13. The spread was 25. Very happy. I met the Binghamton coach. You know, he came over to say hi. Very, very nice of him. And, you know, I. I was in the process of thoroughly enjoying myself for what was only going to be about a half, because I don't really want to stay, but I am troubled throughout all of it. That part of your mind which is working on something else is saying to me, tony, you are not of this world anymore. You cannot function. You don't know how to use the phone. You don't know how to do any of these things. All of these things that. That presented themselves as the rooms of your life. They're all closed. There's no more furniture in these rooms. You cannot get into these rooms. You have to go to another room in a different way. And I'm not. I'm not of the world. I'm just not. It's not for me. That's the last game I'm ever going to go to. I mean, I just don't know how to. I don't.
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B
What a different experience.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So I was sitting there with my three sons, my wife, and I'm looking at you, and I'm sitting there. I went home and I said, liz, that was my dad in the 90s. I'm looking at my dad where I'm always 10ft behind him, and he's talking to everyone. He's working the floor.
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I had all the.
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You had your work bag, you had that, you had the coat.
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I did, I did.
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All that was missing was we had to leave by the player's entrance and you'd leave me behind and I had to fend for myself.
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Some cab money.
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Kid.
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Yeah. At one point I thought you were gonna go away, come back with a half eaten bag of popcorn. And Liz was hoping for the orange soda. Orange room soda.
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I didn't know where.
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You weren't credentialed.
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I didn't know where the press room was and I didn't have a credential. Gene Wang came over, you know, because he's covering for the Post.
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Right? Yeah, we love it.
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And I wanted to say could you take me to the press room so I get something to eat? They don't have a plus one. Are eating and. And I'm not eating. The other part of why I cannot live in this world is you cannot use cash.
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Oh, yes.
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There's no cash.
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Do you know how I had to pay for their food?
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You. You had to pay before they got food?
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Before you go through a turnstile like you're going on the subway. Had you just tap your phone and they say we'll figure it out later.
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This is ridiculous.
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A lot of faith in the system.
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I mean, I haven't checked the. So I couldn't eat. I didn't know how to acquire food.
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Don't you always carry, you know, some bread in your, in your jacket crust?
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No, I carried some cash and I do have a credit card, but I don't want to use a credit card because you know what it says on bills that are produced by the United States treasury said this is legal tender, which means you have to take it. This is legal tender. But they don't take it. Now in the capital of the United States of America, they don't take legal tender at this place. So that was another thing that was going on. I was hungry and I couldn't eat.
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You could have asked one of the kids for a chick of tender.
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I didn't want to do that.
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I wanted to reach over for the fry.
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I wanted them to have all of their own food. And so when I get recognized and people want to post. But that's fine. I'm great with that. I have no problem with that. That's. That's fine. Dan, you know, is doing the game. Dan Coco. Dan Coco is calling the game on ESPN plus plus which I wear a great blazer. Yeah. A white and a white and gray. It looked like it really looked nice. He asked me would I come on the air with him for a while. Sure. Of course. Of course I'm going to do that. And so I go over to where he's sitting and I Refer to ESPN plus as that new gizmo ESPN has that Wilbon and I are not actually allowed on because we're too old for espn.
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B
At least Kelleher was watching you from across the floor to. Just to make sure you stayed in line.
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Yeah, so, and I, you know, I did about three or four minutes. It was fine.
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Jasmine first and catcher.
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No. So Lizzie gets angry at me because I don't bring up the gnats. You know, I could have said, well, what's going to happen with the Nat? I didn't do that. Because you're asking about the culture.
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He.
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No, he's calling the game. I'm his, his guest. I'm not going to take over.
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That's not in your nature.
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It's not what I do if I'm his guest.
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Ask him who he likes in this weekend's game.
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I didn't do anything like that, but I had a wonderful time being on with him.
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And you saw Rich Shavatkin, who's still calling the.
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Rich Vodkin came over to say hello. Barry Zaluga had written this great column last week on Rich Vodkin and Johnny Holiday. And, and you know, and, and Rich is doing the show, doing the game. And so he comes over, I introduce him to the, you know, my son, daughter in law and kids and he very, very nice. Been doing it for 100 years. And, and then I do the Binghamton broadcast the halftime, you know, because I.
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B
Mean, you got, at this point, you don't even know where you are. People are just leading you.
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Yeah, yeah. And, and then like at the end of the half, I'd had enough, but the kids wanted to watch a few more weeks. So we watched about four or five more minutes. @ that point, Georgetown had been revised separation.
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Binghamton had trouble getting a shot off.
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Right. And Binghamton during the game had at least four shot clock violations in the first half. Obviously their strategy was hold it, hold it, hold it. Take a shot late so that Georgetown doesn't get 50 points in the first half. And whatever the strategy was, it worked. Binghamton was in the game for the entire half. When the second half came out, Georgetown was more physical, more forceful, went to the basket and used a tremendous height advantage and won the game. And you know, and that's fine. So we left after about five minutes and Michael had had a great parking spot. Wisely, wisely parked.
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Keep it up front.
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Oh, nice.
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You know, and then we were able to get home and every, everything was fine. And I had, I had a lovely experience. I really Enjoyed myself. But my point would be that I.
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D
That's it.
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It's not. I'm not of the world anymore.
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D
You'll go to a baseball game, though.
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You got different.
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It's different. Yeah, baseball's really different. It's.
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And you can get lost in the anonymity of the. Of the actual. Just the.
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The game. Yeah, yeah, the actual game.
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Now, this is a question for you, Michael, because I don't think I've seen it.
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I mean, everything was good.
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I've not been to a match with. With Tony before. Please tell me he was working the refs like Gary, you know, just yelling, trying to get foul calls, traveling.
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No, I mean, a couple of times I did say, hey, come on. He pushed off, he hooked him. But I. No one could hear me say those things. And, you know, on. I had. I had called my friend Sheila Doyle, who works at Binghamton for Binghamton Foundation. I said, just give me a few bullet points, you know? Right. And she still write you an email. And she told me the names of the three best players, and she told me the name of the coach and all of that. So I wasn't a complete dope when I walked in there. And then, you know, as I said, I. I did whatever anybody asked me to do because this is my school. So if I can publicize my school in a positive manner, I'm. I'm going to do that. So I was happy to do that. And then. And Roger, who does the. Done the Binghamton games forever, introduced me, saying that I had a doctorate in Humane Letters. And I interrupted, I said, just be careful now. Just not regular letters. Just so you understand, these are humane letters. These are the better letters. And I don't work. It didn't work as well as I hoped.
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It didn't.
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It didn't work. But it was, you know, it was a wonderful, wonderful. I'm so glad I did it. But it also proves to me that I'm an old man now.
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Maybe this is just cause I've been listening to Name of the Wind again and I just see there's a part of Kvothe to you where you're retelling the story and all of a sudden you're getting stronger, the hair comes back, the eye returns, and I feel like I'm sort of Bastin Chronicle just watching this glow.
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Well, no, yeah, yeah, I had a really good time. The only regret I have is not being led to the press center, so I could have had something.
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Free food.
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Yeah, let's add in the parenthetical Free, Free food.
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That's what I'm used to. Free food. Not good food. Free food, but free food. Yes. And I didn't get that. And I, and then I, I understood that if I left the floor and went out to get food, well, you had no ticket. At that point I would just be very angry because I could not use cash to get food.
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Now I've been frustrated.
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I don't understand that. I don't understand that. Legal tender. And they don't take it anyway. That's my story. I'm sticking to it. Jason Locan4 when we return, I'm Tony Kornheiser. This is the Tony Kornheiser Show. Have you ever wakened in the middle of the night wondering how vulnerable my home could be? If you have Simplisafe, you wouldn't have to wonder anymore. Just ask Nigel. He's trusted SimpliSafe for six years now. Old school security systems only react after someone breaks in. But Simplisafe can stop a break in before it happens. It's active guard Outdoor protection uses AI powered cameras to detect threats outside and alert trained security agents immediately. Those agents can confront intruders, trigger sirens, spotlights, notify police even if you're not home. With no long term contracts, no hidden FEES, and a 60 day money back guarantee, it's no wonder U.S. news & World Report has named Simplisafe the best home security system five years running. Don't miss out on Simplisafe's biggest sale of the year, 60% off. Right now, our listeners can save 60% on a SimpliSafe home security system@simplisafe.com Tony that's simplisafe.com Tony there's no safe like Simplisafe. This episode is brought to you by Netflix from the creator of Homeland. Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys star in the new Netflix series the Beast in Me as ruthless rivals whose shared darkness will set them on a collision course with fatal consequences. The Beast in Me is a riveting psychological cat and mouse story about guilt, justice and doubt. You will not want to miss this. The Beast in Me is now playing only on Netflix. This is the Tony Korneiser Show.
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The Tony Kornizer Show.
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By now, I guess you've heard about the folk singer betting scandal. Here's how it worked. Here's how it's done. In the third song, I'm gonna break a string. In the fourth song, I'll try to get the crowd to sing. In the fifth song, I'll sing a double chorus at the end, in the seventh song, I'll stop in the middle and tell a long story. It was working pretty good for a while till they busted me in sand and tone. I said, I'll never tell. They said, folks, fess up and we'll throw you a bone. I said, what? They said, we'll get your song on the Cornheiser show. So I came clean. In the third song, I'm gonna break a string. In the fourth song, I'll try to get the crowd to sing. In the fifth song, I'll sing a double chorus at the end with a little harmonica. In the seventh song, I'll stop in the middle and tell a long story. Now, this particular guitar I got in Missoula one time. It was a Thursday.
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It's brilliant. Dan Burn is brilliant. He's absolutely brilliant. And he plays in the Lobster Man, Jason Lock and Fora.
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Hey, that's really called worse, brother. I've been called.
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No, the Lobster man is that. You should be happy about that.
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We needed it. Last night was a bounce back. Last night was a bounce back. I needed. I needed last night.
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A
Okay, what, if anything, as I ask every week, what, if anything, did we learn from last night's game, which was Patriots, Jets?
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I mean, I just think it reaffirmed the fact that a Mike Rabel operation is. Is. Is it understands the assignment and do I think they played 1000% energy, all out game to win and most importantly, cover. No. And they didn't have to. And I just think there's like a economy of output. There's just a professionalism to the operation. They understand the fine margins between winning and losing. And he's clearly allowing this quarterback to do some things he wouldn't have considered go back to week one. I mean, people never talk about it. They lost to a Raiders team that might not win three more games all year. Like, I think what Rabel has learned about the quarterback and Rabel has learned about the offense and Josh McDaniels has allowed him to really just completely just focus on. On game management and when to put the pedal to the metal and when to flex our muscles and when we can sort of back off, but reasonably back off. They're one of the smoothest football operations in the NFL right now. They're a top five, top six football person. By that I mean you can tell they practice, right? You can tell they prepare, right. You can tell the players understand down distance, scoreboard. And not just that, but also how it relates to their season at large. They were one of the Worst home teams in football from really the point Tom Brady left until they hired Mike Vrabel. I mean, they couldn't win at home and they couldn't cover at home. And so it just shows you what, what the numbers people were thinking they should be able to do. They couldn't even do that because, let's be real, they were always the dog and they couldn't even keep it close. And now they're starting to restore a true home field advantage. And the quarterback is special and he has special body control. He has special awareness of the sidelines. He has the ability to make plays on script and off script. And again, I still don't think Josh McDaniels has completely cut him loose and turned it, you know, turned it up to 11 for the spinal Tappers. So, Tone, they're going to win that division? I think they're going to win the division. Can they win two or three times to bad teams? And look at their schedule. The worst they could do is split with Buffalo. We know that for a fact. So they're going to win the division.
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Can they win a playoff game?
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Sure.
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Okay.
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Okay. Now look, this could be a weird year where, you know, Kansas City's coming to you. You know, like, I still think Kansas City can win that division. Talked about it on one of them. Plus 160 on Kansas City to win a division, plus 300 on Kansas City to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. I like those odds now with Andy Reid coming off a BO before he, like, if he beats Denver this weekend, like I think he will, you're not gonna be able to get plus 160 to win the division anymore. But like, if they don't come back from what, two and a half games behind Denver midway through the season, then they're gonna, they're going to somebody's place in the wild card round. But it might not be New England. New England might be the 1 seed.
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Wow. New England was 8 and 26 the last two years. Are they 9 and 2 right now? Here's the difference. Mike Grable is the difference.
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Right.
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Mike Vrabel is the difference. Tennessee. What does Tennessee.
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Development of the quarterback.
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Yeah.
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And getting smart people around the quarterback, you know what I mean? Like, Mike Vrabel didn't entrust a quarterback to like, you know, Sean McVeigh's third string ball boy from, you know, the 2021 season. Like he. And it was a little controversial because some of the things that have happened with Josh since he left New England, every time he's left New England. But that was a shrewd. That was a shrewd move.
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A
Okay, all right, let me move off that and get to a story that is pervasive and rather annoying. And we dealt with it yesterday on pti. AJ Brown and the Philadelphia Eagles. How does this end?
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C
Well, I. Isn't this part of their brand? Like, don't they need this? Like, don't. Don't we think they feed off this a little bit? Like, do we think Sirianni is up at night, he can't sleep about this, or do you think, you know, he's got. Who's his buddy, the sideline guy, Dom? Or do you think he's got Dom bringing over a pizza and they're having a couple beers and laughing about it? Like, I kind of feel like they get, like, if there's no drama there, if everything's just smooth sailing, that's not a lot of fun. That's not good for the talk shows. Like, I don't, I'm not worried about it at all. There'll be a game here soon where they need A.J. brown and he has a big game. They're not going to let him talk forever. But I don't know. I think they won the trade deadline. I think we haven't seen the best of the defense yet. Do I think AJ Brown's back there next year? I don't. I probably don't. Do I think they win another Super bowl with A.J. brown? I also think that is entirely possible.
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Yes, it is. Sure it is. They're good. They're. They're a dependable team. They're a good team. Yeah, they're a good team. All right, we'll move on from that to a general question. What if Jordan Love isn't special and what if Trevor Lawrence isn't special? I thought Trevor Lawrence was going to be great.
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Trevor Lawrence isn't even a league average quarterback. He's not a league average processor. He's not league. He's far below league average in the pocket. And because he was treated like this porcelain doll, can't miss generational player, they never leaned in. If you go back and watch this Clemson film and I've talked to people about this forever, legs were a big part of what made everything go. The RPF, the RPO'd you to death. And then he gets taken first overall and you know, they don't want to get hurt. You don't want anybody to get hurt. But your game is your game and he is big in strapping. He, he's, he's not, you know, he, he, he's, he's, he's not some shrinking violet. He's a big kid with a big trunk and like. But they never wanted to do it. And now he's so far down the line that I think he's broken. I, I don't think he's a winning NFL quarterback now. Does he have his Sam Darnold stage, you know, or his Baker or even Geno for more.
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He's got to go somewhere else for that.
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Maybe. Yeah. But it's not happening there. And Liam. Call Liam Coleman, I think, is dominant. Liam Coleman's not going to tie his coaching, you know, future to this kid. He inherited him. He said, I'll look at him for a year, see what I could do. Remember, Liam Cohen came from McVeigh. McVeigh got rid of golf. I mean, golf went to a Super bowl. Like golf, you know, was a top 10 quarterback in that system, a top five quarterback in that system. And they said, now we could do better now. So, so, so that's, that's that. Who was the other one?
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Jordan Love?
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Yeah.
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I, I wrote about him probably yesterday for the Post. It'll probably come out this weekend. He's like, he's certainly not been special, but, like, if you look at his. Some of the advanced metrics, EPA per drop back, he's twice as good as last year. And I think that's a pretty valuable metric. And he's top five in the NFL now. Are they pushing the ball down the field as much as you. As you'd like and some other things? No, but I think the biggest problems there right now are they're thrown to the running backs. 20% of the time, they're throwing to the wide receivers. Only six teams in the league are throwing the wide receivers less than them. They didn't address the wide receiver problem. You know, they tried. They drafted the kid Golden. They thought Watson would come back from injury. He's always hurt, you know, Dobbs. He's always hurt. And then they lose Kraft. I think they missed out on not getting and more importantly, people smarter than me in this league. Coaches and general managers and scouts think we've seen all these influential wide receivers traded in the last three years and they sat all that out and I think they're paying the cost and they just want to draft and develop, but that's hard to do at the receiver position. And that's, that can be a difficult system with all the option rounds and seeing things the same way as everybody else. And now they don't have anybody to run it to. Like I like the fact you want to have a point guard and he can make anybody the star at any given time. But outside of Kraft, there's no go to guy in the entire passing game. And now Craft's hurt. He's absolutely figure on the fly. I think they've got a major wide receiver issue and they, they up their percentage of 12 and 13 multiple tight end sets coming into the year because the receivers are always hurt. And so that was helping Kraft, but now Kraft is out too. And even if you run the numbers on what does Jordan Love do with two or three tight ends on the field, he's still only 15th in the league in passer rating. So it's not like they were gouging people with that stuff. They were doing it 28% more than last year and not getting a lot of bang out of their buck. And now they're barely throwing to the wide receivers and when they do, I mean, again, I don't even know who's going to is golden playing this week is Dobbs playing. So I think they've got a major personnel problem and I think the play calling has also become pretty predictable. And LaFleur is starting to take heat.
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For the first time in his career, he is. Will Russell Wilson finally retire now?
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Now with this embarrassment fun Tone, like one of my co hosts on my radio show told me yesterday that I guess he started a cameo like in the middle of the day yesterday. Like I guess he met with the media, finished that up. He's still talking to the media so that tells you he still likes, he likes to cook that way and he started a cameo. I think it's 333 bucks a pop, so I don't think he's going away. Tone. I, I think the he has the second stage of his career where he's become kind of the heel. I don't know, I think he's getting off on it. So okay, you know. Now look, is he going to make more than $3 million anywhere next year? I don't think so. And the doors may close for him. Like he may be told, no thanks. You know, we don't need our third string quarterback to be on cameo, but I don't think he's going to stop trying. I'll put it to you that way.
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Okay, you like Kansas City to beat Denver. The other big game, Seattle at the Rams, who you like in that one?
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I don't love that game. I think it has the potential to go over obviously both Great defenses, both great offense offenses. They're two of the top three first half teams in the league. Maybe it gets a little crazy to start. Maybe the first half goes over and then I can talk myself into a script where the defenses adjust and settle in the second half. But both those offense have been really explosive in the first half of games. Eileen, the Rams because of the experience of the head coach, because of the experience of the quarterback being in these spots as the hunted before and because I saw a better version of McDonald's defense in Baltimore in a 1pm start in the rain in in December against a lesser version of McVay's offense and McVeigh took it to him. So I'm not going to have a lot of money on that game. I might not have any money on that game. I'm sure we'll talk about it a little bit. I want to bet but it's not one. I don't see a lot of advantages and edges in the betting markets of that game. I would lean though to the Rams to win that game.
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All right. Plug all your enterprises for us. It makes me happy.
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Oh, thank you. You're happy. I'm happy too. Yeah, I have not talk to but we Ben hall to see if it's officially a three lobster night. I want to bet last night but it felt pretty good. Yeah, I needed it. We were on a lot today. If you're interested in World cup qualifiers, you're interested in, I don't know, South Carolina State against Charleston tonight. We're going to play Charleston team total if you're in the NBA. If you want to get a jump on some NFL bets for the weekend, we've got you covered at Wannabe. You can go to www.wannabetwithus.com and that'll take you to the Spotify, to Apple, our YouTube, Twitter, all that stuff. That's sort of our clearinghouse and yeah, the littles have been a big part of this. We love all the feedback we're getting and I need to do a little bit better And Beltway Ben has continued to crush it. So hopefully we can teach you guys some things that are working for us and not working for us workshop some some winning bets together.
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Thank you Jason.
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Thank you guys. Enjoy the games.
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Thank you Jason Locke. And for our boys and girls, we will come back James Carville and Jeff Ma. We don't know about Carville. We're sure about Ma. We did it last night. We don't know about Carville. All right, I'm Tony Kornheiser you're listening to the Tony Kornheiser show. The news is out.
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All over town.
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That you've been seeing her running round. I know that I.
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Should leave a.
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True then.
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I just can't go.
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You win again.
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Hank Williams, would you win again? It's the walk up music for James Carville, who last week was 3 and 3, is now 31, 27 and 2. Making money.
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Oh, yeah.
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If you bet with James, you're making money. Do you want to talk about anything before we go to games this week?
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Well, I think what we're doing do for a big weekend. It could be this weekend, could be next weekend. You know, Thanksgiving's coming up. We got a lot of. We got a lot of plays. Yeah, I. I am not satisfied with 31 and 27. Let me assure everybody we want to improve on that score.
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The only game that you picked last week that I shook my head on completely was when you picked Arizona plus seven against Seattle. Because I just think Arizona stinks. That's just me.
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Well, it obviously didn't turn out very well. No.
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35. Nothing at the.
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Idea was the backup quarterback was better.
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Yeah. Well, yeah. Jacoby Brissette may be better certainly than Kyler Murray. All right, what do you got for us this week?
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I got the Air Force. UConn, I guess it is. Air Force is getting seven and a half.
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Yes. You can take Air Force.
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Seven. Yep.
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Okay. What else?
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Mississippi State. What again? Seven at Missouri.
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Seven at Missouri. Yep.
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Yeah.
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Mississippi State fighting Bulldog to Stockville, Mississippi.
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Okay.
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And then Duke is playing Virginia and delay in points. That's how bad Virginia is.
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So you're going to take Duke. Virginia was a ranked team two weeks ago. Right.
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A lot of ranked teams. We were ranked team.
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Right, right. That's right.
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Everywhere.
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Okay, so you're going to take.
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It is kind of funny when you. When Duke is.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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That's hard for me to accept. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
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And the commanders and what the over. And who the commanders playing?
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They're playing Miami. That's in Madrid, Spain, early in the morning. Yeah.
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9:30.
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Was that the over asset you said over.
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You want to go over 47 with teams that don't really score a lot of points. You're going over. Okay.
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You know, every time you don't like our bet, we usually go about 2 to 1.
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Okay.
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And then the. What else did I have? The Cowboys. Oh, God.
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Yeah. Cowboys giving three.
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Given three. And who was it was the last one.
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The Browns. Browns getting eight.
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And I'm taking the Browns.
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Do you want to explain that one to me? Because the Ravens have won three in a row and seem to have turned their season around.
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Well, the Browns is maybe not as bad. And, you know, points matter.
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Yes.
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You know, the getting points. They're at home. That matters.
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The Browns have a very good defense. They do. They have a very good defense, so.
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And, you know, points matter. You know, it's not just a game. It's point spread.
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No, that's. Yeah. The sophisticated bettors are not picking winners.
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Now. We'll have to wait once that goes. Can you believe that they were betting on the speed of the next pitch was going to be a ball or a strike? Oh, my God Almighty. Man. Who's gonna book that kind of bet?
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So. So those guys are never going to pitch in the majors again. Never, never, never. And these prop bets are the undoing of us all. They're crazy.
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What could have gone wrong? I mean, it's hard to throw a game. I'm not saying you can do it, but just. It don't always work. But if you say it's gonna be a ball sock, I just throw the ball in the mud. He's gonna miss the next free throw. I mean that.
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Yes. Yes. And you can rationalize it by saying, I'm not trying to throw the game. This is just one small, infinitesimal part of it. Yeah. So.
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Yeah.
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But it's creepy. All right. Thank you, James. We root for you. Talk to you next week. James Carville. It's thrilling, isn't it, Michael, that James Carville comes on this show and picks games? Like when Chuck Todd comes on the show and picks games. He's just thrilling. You don't expect it. It's the best you don't expect.
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He's as surprised at the games he's picking as we are.
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Yeah. Yes. He doesn't even know what the spreads are. All right, so we go from James to Jeff Ma. Before we do that, let me say that this week's picks with James Carville and Jeff Ma are brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We have Jeff Ma with us now. And in the nature of full disclosure, as we tape this, it is Thursday evening because Jeff is in California and he's much more wide awake on Thursday evening for us than on Friday morning. And when it's 5:30 in the morning, his time. I know you want to talk about the baseball stuff. The two Cleveland pitchers who I think it is likely will never pitch again in the majors because it seems like. It seems like these Indictments are very fully wired. But what are your thoughts on this?
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Yeah, I mean, I listened to you and Jeff Passon talk about it, I think Wednesday. And I think what occurred to me that, you know, the statement that he made that he thinks some politician needs to take a stand and put this back and you know, the genie is out of the bottle, but that's. It's not going to go back in the bottle. And at the core, when you think about this incident, right, and all these incidents are, you know, they're similar in some ways, right. They're basically, I think more stupidity and ignorance than anything that nefarious. Like obviously the people that were taking the information were pretty nefarious. I think at the core of this one, the concept of micro bets, betting on every pitch. That's not the nature of what sports betting was supposed to be. At least, you know, like if you got rid of micro bets, no one would care. Like no one needs to bet on whether a pitch is a ball or a strike. That to me is the same as like walking in and needing to a slot machine. Like you don't need to do that, right? Do you need to bet on the outcome of a football game with a point spread? I would say that does fuel and has fueled the interest in football for a long time. And certainly betting on the World Series, people were very interested in that. But these concept of micro bets, which was developed I think by a company, you know, I don't know, 10 years ago called simple Bets, they. They started, you know, kind of piloting these things. These did come from the idea that we were going to get legalization and this was an innovation that was sort of a product of the idea that legalization was going to come. And now legalization is ultimately the reason we were able to sniff this out. So there's sort of like self policing to some degree. But I think at the very nature of these things, there's two things. One is like do we actually need these products? Again, like the John Tay Porter situation where he did all these sort of unders on him. These bets, we don't necessarily need them. The reason we have them is because the sports books are greedy and they want to create more ways for people to lose money. And you know, at the core they need to be able to protect those bets. If they can't protect those bets, then they shouldn't offer them. And you know, again, in the case of the athletes, they need to be educated much more than they are. Maybe, maybe they are educated and they need to pay Attention. And ultimately why you're saying these guys need to have a lifetime ban is because athletes need to understand how serious this is. Because ultimately it's the integrity of the game and it's the integrity of an industry that is here to stay, no matter whether we like it or not.
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I was talking with somebody from Major League Baseball just this morning and I'm wondering if you feel that if they were to put a limit, a smaller limit, a twenty dollar limit on all of these so called prop bets, first of all, would that help? And second of all, would the betting companies agree to that?
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Well, I mean again I would ask why do we even need these if we're going to just put these tiny limits on them? Who are the people that are betting these again? And you know, like again, do we need these? And I think the betting companies need them because a lot of the, you know, the straight spread bets or total bets, those markets have become very efficient and you know, they don't make as much money on them as they do on these more exotic bets. They really need these and so that's why they have them. Will they put limits on them? They do have limits on most of them. You know, like limits are for every sportsbook are going to be smaller for these types of micro bets. And the thing about all these sportsbook is they're very preferential. If you're an idiot, they'll let you bet tons on this. If you're a smart person, they'll let you bet a dollar on it. So it's a very predatory industry in many ways. And the idea that they are offering these in the first place is because they know they can make a lot of money off of them.
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I would like to say, and you will love this, that the person from baseball said pretty much what you said, that if, you know, if you're stupid, they'll let you, they'll send a car for you, you know. And he said, I said, he says, I can't believe this. You know, if you're really good at something like blackjack, if you're really good, they don't let you in the casino. And I said, I know somebody, I know somebody.
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You know a guy, you know a guy.
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So I thought, I thought you would enjoy that. Okay, that's good. Who's on bet the process this week.
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By the way, we have a guy by the name of Sprott's better. That's his handle on Twitter. Rufus does the interview himself. They talk a little bit about your favorite league, the NBA and betting on the NBA and how to get edge. They actually talk about how to get edges on props in the NBA and how to. How to make money off of those. And it's not by knowing John Tay Porter.
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So, yeah, you had a good week. You were four and one last week. You're 30 and 22. You have the highest plus minus that we have of the four. Well, not four people. Three people. And a monkey.
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And a monkey.
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But you are number one at the moment. What do you have for us this week? You're doing very well in college games, too. Very well.
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Yeah, it's definitely with the assistance of my. Of my partner, crime, Rufus Peabody, who took issue with me this week on the podcast because he said I don't give him credit when I do this. And I'm. Well, you don't listen to the podcast because I do give you credit. Yeah, we're going to take Iowa plus the 7 over USC. Rufus actually said this was his biggest position of the week, so. But he also said the Iowa State Hawkeye, so he didn't really know what he was talking about. So it's Iowa Hawkeye.
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Right.
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Plus the seven over USC.
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Okay. What else?
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We're going to take Florida plus the 15 against Ole Miss.
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Really?
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This? Yeah. I mean, exactly. Your. Your tone is the reason there's value on this because ultimately nobody wants to bet on them after what they saw. But they had. They played well against Georgia. You know, they still have a lot of talent, and that's a lot of points for.
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Can I ask you a secondary question on this? If you thought that Lane Kiffin was going to be the coach at Florida next year, do you think he would want to have a larger margin of victory or a smaller margin of victory over.
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I think Lane Kiffin wants a larger. Larger margin of victory no matter what the situation is. So, I mean, I think in that situation, he would probably would want a larger. Because he'd want to really.
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Yep.
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You know, rub it in the face before he shows up there and prove how. How much better he is than.
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Than who they have, because that's one of the places that he is highly rumored to be ending up in is Florida. So go ahead, what else?
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I mean, there's a lot. Going to be a lot of job openings, so. Going to be rumored to go to a lot of places. I'm going to take Penn State plus the seven. Sorry. Minus the seven against Michigan State.
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Okay.
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You know, last week, I don't know if you watched that game.
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I did.
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Yes. Well, that game was crazy. If you think about it because Indiana was what, a 15 point favorite in a game that if you had played that game in game one game, week one of the regular of the season, what do you think the line would have been?
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Penn State -10.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you had a 25 point change.
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Yeah.
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Based on obviously, you know, Indiana is much better. Like it should change, but should it really change? So the point here is that people are a little bit too down on Penn State. They proved last week they still got a lot of talent and I think, you know, that they're going to be able to beat Michigan State.
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What else?
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I'm going to take Tampa Bay plus the five and a half over Buffalo. You know, I think the Buffalo struggles are pretty real and I think that, you know, Tampa is a team that obviously can keep games close. We know they can. And then I'm going to take Atlanta minus a three and a half over Carolina. The only thing I worry here a little bit is the travel and there's some talk that Drake London's a little sick. But I do think Atlanta is a team that's going to play much better during the second half of the season and certainly playing at home against Carolina, team that we bet against last week with New Orleans and one outright.
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Yes.
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They're just, they're just a little bit. They're just there's not that good. And even though their record is reasonable, I don't think they are very good.
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I don't disagree at all about Carolina. I can't stand Atlanta though. I think they stink. I mean, I think that they are one of those teams that this year, two or three times if they win a game, people say, oh, watch out for Atlanta. Watch. And then the next week they stink. So I'm not a fan. That's just me. But you know, I hope you win. I do. I know.
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I appreciate that.
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Thank you, Jeff. We'll talk to you next week. Thanks very much.
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Thanks, Tony.
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Jeff Ma, boys and girls and this week's picks with James Carville and Jeff Ma have been brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We will come back with email and jingle. I am Tony Kornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser show.
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Here comes Tony mailbag. Got your emails, your faxes.
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And.
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Here comes Mr. Tony's mail bag. Going to reach out for all of you folks.
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Mitch can do it.
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It's great.
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Do you remember when you took adult piano lessons? Yes, I was also just called. Piano lessons.
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Still trying to get Mark Pole of Louisville, Kentucky to come up with some chocolate for me. Still trying to do that. Hasn't responded. Okay, before we get to the mailbag, let me just say, well, my temperatures rise and my feet on the floor crazy people knock on Because I'm wanting some more Let me in, baby I don't know what you got but you better take it easy. This place is hot and I'm so glad we made it. So glad we made it. You gotta give me some love. And that is a very young Steve Wimbledon with the Spencer Davis Group. That is very young. Thanks to our guests today. Jason Lockenford, James Carville, Jeff, Ma. Thanks as well to today's sponsors. Remember, you can listen to us on Apple podcasts, Spotify and Odyssey. Get show through Apple. Please leave us a review from Zach Ogden in Glens Falls, the home of my college roommate Dave Carpenter, where he grew up. And he writes. Zach writes, can we add energy mogul to the list of titles like captain and doctor? While Tony would be getting his start at this a little later in life. Do we think this is how Warren Buffett got to building Berkshire Hathaway? Did he just get tired of terrible customer service and start buying those companies? To Nigel's point, from Wednesday's pod, maybe the solution to this ongoing battle of Tony versus corporate America is that Cornheiser Inc. Just starts buying up these businesses that keep them up at night. Cigna propane companies, barbershops that don't open at 8am the opportunities are endless. On another note, I was down in Binghamton for work a few weeks ago and had a few minutes to kill. I drove by your old place. As you can see from the picture below, 20 Conklin Avenue is in rough shape.
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Perhaps.
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We had a real estate division at Kornheiser Inc. And you can buy that too. Thanks for the years of entertainment. So he shows a picture of where I used to live with Dave Carpenter on the second floor across the street from across the hall from from Barbara Vinier and down down from Richard Liss on the third floor. And it looks bad, but it looks so much better now than it did 50 years ago. Like you might say it's a dump. You would be right. It's a dump. But you know, that's where I lived and it looks better now than it did then. I'm grateful for the picture. From Zach From Paul Scoza Fave in Jackson, Wisconsin Dear Dr. Tony, sorry to hear of your issues with with a local propane provider. I've been selling propane for over 20 years and I hear stories like this often from my competitors former customers. Let me assure you you have done everything correctly. The first thing I tell my customers is that when someone offers you a locked in price for the upcoming winter, take it because it's not going to get any cheaper. The other thing you are doing correctly is pre buying your agreed upon gallons needed for a year. The consumer usually gets a bit better price if they pre buy what I've done for 10 years. Yes, regarding your current provider, not and that's Sherman Oil who I like, but come on. Regarding your current provider not honoring their previous pre buy offer because they are out of contract season. Well that is a bunch of hocus pocus junk. 1. They can write a new contract anytime they wish. 2. The wholesale cost of propane is actually lower than it was in May and June of this year when most propane companies purchase their propane for the upcoming contract season. 3. They never sent you a contract remedies. You have options. Call Sherman Heating Oil and tell them to pump out and pick up their tank as you will be switching LP providers. LP is propane providers. They will do one of two things. 1. Schedule a pickup or what they should do. Ask how we can keep your business. Yes, if the answer is fine, we will pick up our tank, call another local provider and schedule a new tank to be set and filled. You are the customer. You have choices on. Whom is your propane provider? Stay away from the large national propane companies. Ferrell Gas, Amerigas, Suburban Propane. I work for one. They're terrible. Stick with the small local providers. Bob Wiley and Sons was not the Name of the guy from what about Bob or Delaware Propane. If the position has been filled, has not been filled. Can I please be the official propane salesperson at Tony Kornheiser show? Yes, this goes in the special pile. Yes it does. This goes in the special pile from Carl Lawback in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. I've been down in Nazareth when looking, just looking for a place where I can rest my head. You don't want to do this. You don't want to go to the band. Many oil and propane only offer a certain amount of product at that locked in price. The solution is to call the guy down the road and say do you offer this to new customers? I will send you a check today if you do. Also look back your usage so you pre buy the correct amount. Many of these companies send those letters mid to late summer so you have to get on it early. Lastly, did you say do you know who I am? No, I didn't say. I didn't say that. Do you know who I am? They don't know who I am. It's okay. They don't have to know who I am. I have a haiku here from Shed for customer service interactions. Turkey bacon club. Turkey bacon club sandwich. Turkey bacon club. Turkey bacon club sandwich. Turkey bacon club. Turkey bacon club sandwich.
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Just repeat that over.
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Mark Becker clearly the letter from the propane company was mailed to your ABC ESPN office. The good news is that in five years when you find the letter on your desk, you will be able to take advantage of the price off Gary Van Geese Tony sounds like Mr. Sherman has found the way to put the pain in propane. There's more than one propane company out there. Perhaps it's time to take a look. That's what the majority of the people are saying. Googling now.
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Shop around.
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Shop around. When I was shop around From Brian Mohler in Reed's Spring, Missouri hearing today's open and your struggles with your propane company reminded me of my own battle I had with our propane company just earlier this June. When we bought our home four years ago, we simply stayed with the propane company the previous owners had always used. I'm not sure if you're in the same situation, but we have a contract where we lease the tank that belongs to the company and then are obligated to use them to purchase our propane. I assume that's what I have. This is a large nationwide company and their prices were always a little higher than local suppliers. But their service had always been good and it wasn't worth doing a change. Fast forward to this June I always try to take advantage of the lower propane prices for summer and fill up my tank. We have a ground source heat pump and thus don't use very much propane, so a summer fill usually gets us through the year. When I called to schedule the propane delivery, I got a price quoted at over $3 a gallon which was over twice the local rate. When I asked for an explanation, I was told that summer pricing hadn't taken effect yet and to call back in a couple of weeks. I waited and called back. The price was still the same. This time. When I asked for an explanation, it was explained to me that they do customer usage pricing and since I don't use very much propane, I'm now being charged at a higher rate than others. As you can imagine, I was a little upset at this news. Years from listening to this podcast I knew my next move was to ask for the next person up the chain to speak to. Speaking with a manager, that's what I did. Did not resolve the issue. Didn't with me either as they maintained their pricing policy and said there was no room to negotiate. That's what happened to me. I then told them I would look to take my business elsewhere, to which it was explained to me there would be a $600 disconnection fee for them to come and remove their tank. This news brought me to a Wilbon Rage level as I argued this fee that to me seemed very egregious. This representative did offer to knockoff $200 when I asked to speak to the next person of the chain, but then proceeded to tell me that if I were to speak to her manager that offer could go away. I couldn't let this fight go so I had to press on and sure enough that offer went away and I was left with $600 plus. They magically found where they had forgot to bill me from my initial fill up of propane when we moved in four years ago. So now I had a total bill of $740. The mafia trying to keep the story from getting too awfully long, several correspondents with the Better Business Bureau finally elicited to a phone call from their corporate office. We were able to set on a much more reasonable disconnection fee of $300 and they waived the magical $140 initial up fee fill up fee from four years ago that just happened to show up. Needless to say, I will never do business with this company again and now use a local propane company that doesn't have magical pricing adjustments four years into your service. Keep up the good fight, Dr. Kornheiser. You're an inspiration to us all. But I'm getting hosed. Just like you. I'm getting hosed. Okay, Melissa from Whitefish, Montana Dear Captain Farmer Tony, I'm related by marriage to a longtime listener who has shared with me amusing stories about Steve Sands Hotel stays specifically as pertains to toilets and bathrobes. A review of the Lake Nona Wave Hotel in Orlando requires only four words to show it's a winner. Heated toilet, two bathrobes, and it's nowhere near Disney. Happy trails, Steve the Sycophant. Recent comments about the demise of Sports Illustrated brought back happy memories. My eager wait each week to see the latest copy of SI in my mailbox. I remember starting to read SI when it was first published. 1954, I believe, and I was a subscriber for some time in the 1960s until the 2000s. Somewhere buried in my basement are two issues with classic Dan Jenkins stories, the ones about the 1971 game of the Century between Nebraska and Oklahoma and the 1972 Orange bowl in which NU destroyed destroyed Alabama. Hope to find them before my wife does. As with them, as a souvenir of my last Vietnam tour, the January 1971 issue of Playboy with Playmate of the year Sharon Clark. Rereading those classics would be a vast improvement on perusing the latest issue of AARP magazine. Steve Sick of it. From John Craig in Albany, New York. I'm literally writing this at the end of a faculty music concert at my daughter's school in North Colony, just outside of Albany. The show ended with a Jimmy Fallon esque rendition classroom instruments of Stand By Me, led and arranged by Joe Bianchino, a district teacher here.
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How about that?
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How about that? I've seen him a couple of times around the middle school. We've exchanged a hearty lecheserie. Very talented. Just thought you and the Littles would like to know. That's wonderful.
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That really is.
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And he's from Latham. He signs all his things. Latham, N.Y. from Nathan Ackerhelm in Charlotte, N.C. i subscribe to something called Sirius XM, which is a satellite radio that you can play in your car or on the app. My Go to station is channel 36, alt nation. I was listening this evening when Suddenly Post Sex Nachos came on. What a thrill. This channel also plays Yellow Card, so I'm sure Tim listens along with Channel 10, the 10 spot, which plays all of Pitbull's greatest hits and pop 2K. How many kits has he had from Jolene in Grand Island, Nebraska? Buck Beltzer was kind enough to let you know I was sitting in the front row at the Husker volleyball game. Thanks Buck. I figured I should confirm. Yes, that was me. It was Military Appreciation Night, the closest home game before Veterans Day. They had an Army Reserve member sing the national anthem and as she sang I couldn't help but think about my dad. He proudly served in World War II and the last I ever spent with him was on Veterans Day. Passed away peacefully four days later. Standing there, I was missing him, but also feeling proud of the man he was and the service he gave the Husker Volleyball Instagram posted this photo took during the anthem. I'm pretty sure the focus was supposed to be the gentleman saluting behind me, but I'll admit I was touched to have a picture that captured the moment. I'm in the red Husker quarter zip. And yes, front row seats. Watching the number one ranked Huskers up close was incredible. But let's be honest, the real win Front row parking basically as good as the seats themselves. And yeah, there's a picture of Jolene that's very, very nice. That's great. Very, very nice. From Ben Sandler, who is a dentist. Where is he? In Columbia, Maryland. I'm planning a trip to Pinehurst in March. What was the name of the restaurant you loved?
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Ironwood. Ironwood Cafe.
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Thank you advance for the info. FYI, a supermoon full moon is happening on December 4th. Tell Michael. Okay, it's the Ironwood Cafe. It's very, very nice. We also like the hotel in town. Yes, the. But you like to.
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You eat at the bar there. You don't go into the formal dining room?
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No, I eat at the bar and I always have the pork chop dinner. It's really very good. Bobby Gottfried the discussion of John Patchorek's 1000 batting average made me wonder if you knew the statistical leader of the the plate among World Series participants. That would be one Michael A. Taylor. I'm sure you remember his only at bat in the 2019 series, the only one he had in his career. During the Fall classic. In the ninth inning of Game 2, Michael K. Came to the plate to pinch hit for Victor Robles. Get rid of both of them. Taylor took Chris Dansky deep, retiring with a career World Series lineup of 1000 batting average and on base percentage, slugging percentage of.4000, OPS of 5000. Let's see, let's see someone beat that from Nathan in Gilbert, Arizona. Sure, Shohei Ohtani had a great game, but he ever lead his team to the Hickory Grove Baptist Church Youth Basketball League City Championships while playing on a sprained ankle he suffered in the semifinal? No. That's what I thought. Eat it, Shohei. Wes in Foster City, California, but originally from Syosset. I love Syosset North Shore I write to delightfully, informally to inform you that you have your newest and potentially youngest fan. When I picked my 3 year old daughter up from daycare last week, I'd mistakenly left on your show while putting her into her car seat. When I went to change the song to our usual array of children's music, she said, no, dad, dad, don't change it. Don't change what, kiddo? I asked. I want to listen to people talking. And so was born the new moniker for the Tony Kornheiser show each day after last week I picked her up without fail each day she's asked for people talking. Her attention span fades quickly, usually when Wilbond comes on, but there's no question that I've been able to convert her into a loyal little Father of the Year. I'll let the the facts speak for themselves. As for me, I'm a longtime little for your heads on sticks days in pti. It was and continues to be religious watching for me along with your podcast. Thanks for all the years of laughs. Tell Mike and Sagot Sagot Sagot to eat it. Okay, and one more. Brendan Borzelli Lebanon, New Jersey. Watching the Binghamton Georgetown game on ESPN plus, there was a guest commentator and the commentator talked about their days as an analyst for Monday Night Football, the size of the then Harper College's arena, their days at the school, and height advantage Georgetown has over Binghamton. The commentator seemed itching to get out of there. As the 10 minute mark hits in the first half, the old man rises, is spotted by some fans. He smiles and waves and before the eye can blink, he's gone. At that moment I realized his premium parking pass was only good until 7pm you're out on your bike. 10 everyone, as always do wear white.
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But I still need a bit of milk full fat, which I've warmed in.
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The micro wave.
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By now. I guess you've heard about the folk singer betting scandal. Here's how it worked. Here's how it's done. In the third song, I'm gonna break a string. In the fourth song, I'll try to get the crowd to sing. In the fifth song, I'll sing a double chorus at the end. In the seventh song, I'll stop in the middle and tell a long story. It was working pretty good for a while Till they busted me in sand and tone? I said, I'll never tell. They said, fess up and we'll throw you a bone. I said, what? They said, we'll get your song on the chord. So I came clean. In the third song, I'm gonna break a string. In the fourth song, I'll try to get the crowd to sing. In the fifth song, I'll sing a double chorus at the end with a little harmonic? In the seventh song, I'll stop in the middle and tell a long, long story. Now, this particular guitar I got in Missoula one time. It was a Thursday and.