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Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will talk about baseball and potatoes with Buster only. And we'll talk with Taylor Twelman about state capitals and also about the World Cup. But first, let's keep the sales weasels happy.
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Uh, nope.
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Previously on the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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I could be a little polarized, you know, some people are going, oh, he's scheming too much. But most people, because I'm very positive and joyful out there, are receptive to what I'm putting out there.
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Positive and joyful.
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I'm like the Mr. Tony of Survivor.
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So you're saying that anxious and fretting wouldn't actually help you on any level? I would imagine it. This is General George Washington, and you're listening to the Tony Kornhauser. That was fun having him on. Oh, yeah, having Rick Devins on, that was fun.
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I feel like our personal motto of never forgive, never forgive, forget it would work well on that show.
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So I got this note. I got this note from Danielle Hunter from the Ascot Media Group. I'm going to read it and you tell me what I should do. Dear the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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Oh, it's personal.
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Yeah. I'm reaching out to invite you.
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Do you have the emphasis?
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The Tony Kornheiser Show. I'm reaching out to invite you to read Leisure Living, a lyrical, deeply introspective book by John Kaufman, and to consider offering a blurb or review for possible inclusion in the forthcoming November 2026 release from under the BQE Press. Set in Ogdensburg, New York, that's upstate. Leisure Living explores memory, sex, loss and class through the sharply refracted lens of a mobile. Mobile home park. So that it's a trailer park.
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Okay.
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The trailer parked in Ogdensburg, New York. If you're open to reviewing the 84,000 word manuscript.
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Hold it, hold it.
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What? The 84,000 word manuscript. I'd be glad to send a PDF. Immediate PDF. What is a PDF? What does that mean?
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File.
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Okay. With production deadlines approaching, we would be grateful for any endorsement by Friday, June 5. Your perspective would help introduce this provocative work. As John launches his global PR campaign with Ascot Media Group. Leisure Living follows Joe Dubay. D U B A Y Dube, maybe?
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Sure.
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Doobie. Doobie do. A 30ish Wall street trader who believed he had escaped the orbit of his father's mobile home park until his father's death. Pulls him back. You keep pulling me back. Pulls him back to northern New York to take over the business. There he confronts a tangle of family secrets, failing infrastructure, a predatory investment group, and a complicated reunion with a woman from his past. It's right out of Hallmark. Except the Dark side of Walmart.
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Right?
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Comparable to There, There by Tommy Orange. Should I know that? Oh, that There, there, that. Should I know that? The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu and A Good Hand by Michael Smith. Leisure Living examines economic precarity. I don't know. I'm unfamiliar with that word. Precarity. Last divides and the gritty realities of an often overlooked industry. At a moment when affordable housing and economic inequality are central concerns, leisure living offers a vivid and empathetic perspective. 84,000. Yeah. I gotta say, we're gonna get the
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red pen out, see if we can trim it down to 75.
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Yeah.
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At a moment when affordable housing and economic inequality are central concerns. Not for me. Leisure. I did well. I'm sorry. I did fine.
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They refer to it as Northern New York. That should be upstate.
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It's upstate.
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That's how they should be.
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Leisure living offers a vivid and empathetic perspective.
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Precarity, a condition of existence characterized by extreme uncertainty, unpredictability and a lack of security regarding one's livelihood, housing and overall well being.
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The author, John Kaufman is an attorney and mobile home park owner. Oh, okay. He owns the whole thing. Not just a trailer. He owns the whole thing. Who lives near New York City. His writing has appeared in the Washington Square Review, Off Assignments, Epiphany, Tax Notes, the Journal of Taxation of Financial Products. That must be a sexy place to get your stuff printed. And the Journal of Taxation of Investments. He is a 2025, 26 CUNY City University of New York Writers Institute Fellow. We'd be honored to include Your voice among the early responses to his work. You know, what do I say? Jesus wept.
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Jesus wept.
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I mean, I steal from Dan, right? I steal from Dan. That was Dan Jenkins. That's what every time was a blurb. Jesus wept. Dan Jenkins. Well, you know, this has piqued my
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interest now, given the author's bio. I have more questions about this predatory investment group.
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Yes. Should we get the copy? 84,000 words.
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We're gonna have to figure out how to open up a PDF for you.
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Yeah, it's a lot.
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That's a lot.
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A lot of printing.
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So Wilbon, who was on SportsCenter at 7:30 in the morning this morning, yesterday on the PTI show, he looked into the camera and he said the San Antonio Oklahoma City series was irresistible. Sadly, I found a way to resist it last night. I didn't. I watched for 10 minutes and I just didn't.
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It's a real taut game, wasn't it?
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I didn't care. I didn't care. That's San Antonio has lost. They're down three two, they go back to San Antonio. Word.
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I assume they're gonna win attitudinal from Mr. Wilbach.
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Yeah, he said attitudinal at some point today. It was a shocker at that hour in the morning. That's a very long word. Att to D. No, it's a five syllable word.
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I have to clap that out.
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You know, that was really a lot. So I resisted that. I also resisted the hockey where it's a much bigger deal to me. So the basketball series, three two. It's three two. Right. So if San Antonio wins, it's then three, three and we do this again. Las Vegas took out Colorado, the President's Trophy team, the best team in the league. Took them out in four. Took them out in four. Yeah, A sweep. I mean that's, that's a stunner. That's really a stunner. But that's, you know, what am I really interested in? The Gnats, right? They're fun. As Coco said the other night, not last night, the night before.
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They are fun.
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They're fun to watch, fun to talk about. They score a bunch of rules, their pitching has come around. They have now beaten. They got four wins in a row over first place team.
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Yes.
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Right. Atlanta two and Cleveland two series wins
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against, you know, this is first place. Two of three very difficult ones.
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The other night they won. They scored a bunch of runs, many of them late. They got seven innings out of Littell. Lattel had been A stiff. The beginning of the year. They got seven innings. It was a bullpen game. He came in in the third and went all the way through.
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Not a full bullpen game, but, yeah, they used. They used the opener.
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Well, they use the opener. You know, that. That. Yeah, that's what I meant. You know, and they had a bunch of home runs.
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But this goes. This goes back to that, the game against the Braves where after the rain delay, they don't have to dip into the bull for many, many arms. And you look at what's happened over these first two games, they're getting to the bullpen early. And that just keeps you going, one series after the other.
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The baby manager, he's doing well. Yes, he's doing well. Last night they won the game. Now I was sitting there watching. The score was 4 to 1 in the top of the ninth.
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Yeah.
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So the Nats got four early in the second with the Rui single, then a James Wood home run.
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Right. So it's four to one, top nine. And I'm a little bit nervous. Mitchell Parker's on the mound. The lefty. Mitchell Parker's on the mound. I'm a little bit nervous. So I sit there. They give you two.
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They're already giving you two innings, giving you two.
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So they're going to go to him for a third. Well, we don't know if they're going to go to him for third at 4. 1. But then the Nats get two on and Andre Shaputzvah. Yeah.
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He doesn't have the ship.
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Yeah, he hits.
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Did you see his line before he hit that? The single?
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No, he had no hits.
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Oh, for four. Hit it to a double play.
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Yeah. He roped one right field scoring. So now it's six one. Now I'm breathing a little bit easier, but Parker gives up two, gives up two. And all I'm saying to myself, and they. And Coco makes the point. They got nobody warming up.
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Yeah.
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All I'm saying to myself is, if this gets to where the tying run is at the plate, you better have someone warming up. It did not get to that. It did not. And it was a 6:3 game. 6:3. The tying run there was one on with a batter at the plate. Six fives, the worst.
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I think they're going to give him another run or two there. Yes.
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Yes. So. So I watched that.
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Does that make you what makes you happier that the Nats are playing so well, by the way, second place in the east or the fact that the Cubs have now lost 10 in a row?
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I mean, I'm. It pleases me that the cubs have lost 10 in a row. It thrills me that the Nats are fun to watch.
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The best of times.
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They. I mean, they're hitting the ball. They're hitting the ball and they're holding other teams. Their. Their relief work, their starting work. It's. It's been.
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As you zoom out, this is one of those interesting things about scheduling where they are sort of drafting off of the Phillies right now. So Cleveland had a difficult series the same way we had one against the Braves. They have it against the Phillies now the Phillies are playing against the Padres. We're going to sync up with them in the next one. You just think, what does that do as you look out? Does that propel us by an extra couple games?
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So the Padres come to town when?
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This weekend.
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Okay. And Bruce Springsteen is when?
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Tonight.
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So Bruce is tonight. Tonight. I hope it doesn't rain.
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No. So I think that. I think the storm chances are higher in the afternoon. I was hoping to go, but baby or big boy boots, he has baseball this evening.
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Okay. So this is what I know best about a Bruce Springsteen concert. I've been to a few. Not like Sam San, not like Liz, not like anything like that. But as he. He says the following words, the screen door slams and then everybody goes. Mary's dress wipes and everybody does the song. He takes the song off because everybody does this.
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To your point, for a storm concert, I went to go see Bruce at Fenway. This was in August of 2014. I'm down, you know, I'm in the center field grass looking up at the monster, and the weather forecast is terrible, dire. He sort of looks up at this guy and goes, I don't know if we're gonna get this one in. And just starts playing the hits from note one.
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Yeah, yeah, get it in. Yeah, he's gonna do a big show.
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Yeah, he plays for about three hours. That's what he does.
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He's my age. Yeah. You know, it's great. It's. You know, he can still do this, and it's wonderful. I'll be interested to see what the
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messaging is for Tonight's show in D.C.
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oh, it will be political, I think. There's no question. There'll be some politics to it. I think there's. There's no question about that. So I have. I guess this is bad news. By the way, the PGA can. The guy they should have canned months ago, immediately during the Ryder cup for
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letting it get out of hand.
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Yeah.
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Unsafe.
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They canned him yesterday. Yeah. And it's, you know, it's a long time coming on that. And he had to expect it, had to know it was going to come. So I have some bad news. Tracy sent me this. This is bad news. There's a House committee backing permanent daylight savings time. I don't want that. Permanent daylight savings time. In other words, we'll just.
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Doesn't this happen every year?
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But it was like a 48 to 1 vote. It was like an unbelievably big vote and the White House wants to do it. And so it's going to go through.
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We're just going to have permanently daylight savings.
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It's never going to go back to standard time. How does that affect cows? How does that affect, you know, everybody? Why is this happening? It's still going to get dark.
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Yeah, right.
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You know, we, the, the dark will the same amount. The percentage of light and dark is going to stay what it's been for, I don't know, 10,000 years. It's just that your clock is going
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to say it's like a scale. Every scale can look a little bit different, but you are the same.
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But I don't like this.
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We won't have to change the clock. That's what this new proposal is. And just be what it is.
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Never going to change until someone decides, hey, let's go back, let's go back and change it, but change it the other way now. Let's change it the other way so that, so that we're living in Europe. That's essentially what it would be. We'd be in Europe at that point. You can manipulate, you do whatever you want. It's just a clock. You've invented. You've invented a clock. That's just an invention, you know, so that, that's made me.
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I feel like this, like whenever you're, whenever you are visiting, right around where the timeline changes and yet you sort of your phone pings back and forth from central.
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Oh, yes.
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Oh, is that right? Does that happen? Yeah, I don't know.
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And I always forget. Is it Arizona that like used to do.
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Arizona just does two. Right. Arizona stays the same time all the time. So Arizona instead of. They are in the west coast time zone at some point and in the rocky time zone at other points. But they never change their clocks. Right. Arizona does. There are other places like that in the country that never change. And then, and then Texas is in two different time zones.
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That's right. This could be great for the chatter patio. It could be get a happy hour crowd in January.
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How is this going to impact the farming for, for us this, this year and future harvests?
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I don't think it's going to because again, light and dark stay the same. You can identify it. You could call it 14 instead of 11 if you want. It doesn't matter. It's still the light and dark remain constant.
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Yes.
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Right. And they are predicted hundreds of years in advance and stuff like that. All right, so that's all we've got. We got a full show. Taylor Twelman will join us and Buster Olney will be with us next. Yes, that's correct. And we'll talk about farming and we'll talk about baseball. I'm Tony Kornheiser.
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This is the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show.
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This is Virginia Coalition. We played them before. We really liked them. The note comes from Stephen Dawson. On May 29, Virginia Coalition will be playing in the Outer Banks as part of Pat McGee's down the hatch Music Festival. And Steven writes, as I was engaging in my pre gig ritual of perusing the other bands on the bill, lo and behold, I see Dan Byrne is on there. Yes. Immediately my mind went into TK collaboration mode. As the primary arranger of the Reginald's Theme, a Very Special Episode, I started running the gamut of guest themes that are not yet in existence that Dan and I could co compose whilst also avoiding the listener backlash of rearranging a crowd favorite. Kip Sheeman's Winter Weather Waltz, Wilbon's Not Surprised Samba, Buster's Bagel, Boogaloo, a plethora of Amora for Jason Lock and Flora. Just spitballing. It's great. It's a great email. And again, this is Virginia Coalition. Speaking of Buster, we have Buster only with us now. We have to start. We have to start with potatoes. I have to tell you that the other day Nigel brought a bunch of boxes, bought a bunch of boxes of seed potatoes. And so these have not just eyes, these have tentacles coming out of them. We cut them down a little bit and in three different spots in the front yard where we had no success last year we planted them eyes up. But today we want to use the bags. Today we're going to bags with the rest of the seed potatoes. We're still on time, are we not? You know, by June 1st?
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Yes. I actually didn't put my garden in Bozeman, Montana until last Friday because it snowed on Sunday on Thursday morning.
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Right?
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Okay. Right. Put the potatoes in. So there's plenty of time. I'm feeling like you already need like a whole posse at Thanksgiving. Plan on a posse at Thanksgiving to eat all the potatoes that you're going to have this fall.
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So good. I'm so happy about that. And you sent. Buster sent us a video in which he's crowing about his onions and his beets and getting ready to put the russets in. The russets go in when Buster.
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They go in on Monday. When I get back, we're gonna do. And you know those finger potatoes, some russets and Yukons into one bed.
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So great. That's so great.
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And it looks amazing.
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Yeah. Because he knows what he's doing and we do not know what we're doing. We're putting dirt in a bag and potatoes that look like they're from the 13th century. It's scary looking.
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Did you have a good lettuce season?
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We had. Did Buster have a cool weather lettuce? Yeah. Do you have lettuce?
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No. I find lettuce to be annoying in a garden. It just takes up too much. No, it's not my favorite, but yes. Tons of beets. We're gonna have so many beets and so many onions.
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That's good. Onions are always good. I'm not a beet guy, but I like onions. Onions and peppers and stuff like that. I want to talk about the Detroit Tigers going down the drain and the possibility now of trading Tarek Skubal when he gets back from the injured list. But I need to start with my pleasure. That the Cubs stink like Wilbur's team stinks. He was just wearing it out on us when they were good at the beginning of the year. Now they're awful. They lost 10 in a row. What's happening with the Cubs?
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Well, first off, I mean, part of it is the other day when we were. We did the Memorial Day game between the Royals and the Yankees. We're in Aaron Boone's office, and he's just like, he's asking Boog Schambi, who was, of course, one of the marquee network broadcasters on Cubs games, like, what is going on there?
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Yeah.
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Because everyone looks at that group as being. It probably is the best position player group in baseball.
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Really?
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The defense and the up.
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Yes.
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And so, you know, the teams will go through these stretches no matter how good they are. And they've had the two streaks of. Of at least 10 wins this year in addition to this terrible losing streak. But here is the core problem with
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the Cubs
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in this era of big swing and miss. You got guys like Jacob Mizorowski. The brewers run 103 miles per hour. They have in their rotation the Lowest average fastball velocity of the 30 teams. And it's not close. And they don't get a lot of swing and miss. They're 27th out of 30 teams in strikeouts per nine innings in this era. That, in the end, might be debilitating. So last night, you know, they start Jordan Wicks, they put him in the rotation, and he gets beat up. They. This is not part of the plan they had. Kate Horton was sort of their power pitcher. He got hurt at the beginning of the year. Justin Steele's been out. The bottom line is they. If they're going to contend this year, especially in October, because John Smoltz told me 20 years ago, power wins in October. They need to get more swing and miss on their pitching staff.
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Let me. Let me then transition to Tarek Skubal, who certainly gets a lot of swing and miss, has been the Cy Young Award winner two years in a row and whose time may be up with the Tigers. The Tigers look like they could win a division at the beginning of the year. They don't look as good right now. He is out right now, but allegedly getting back comfortably before the trade deadline. What do you think is going to happen there with Detroit and Tarek Skubal?
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So you were being really polite when you said they're not as good as last year. They have the worst record in the American League. Oh, they're tied with the Angels for the worst record in the American League. They are. Despite the fact that the American League is so bad this year and so mediocre. And teams that have not played well, including the Orioles, the Blue Jays, they're still in it because the league is so mediocre. The Tigers are now at the point where it's hard for anyone objective to say, yeah, we have a chance to make the playoffs unless they go on a run. Skubal yesterday, through 37 pitches throwing to hitters, he looked great. He's throwing well. If he told me that he was back on a mound in two weeks, that wouldn't surprise me. You know, he's come back from this with this new procedure that he was loading bodies.
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Yeah.
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To have the chip removed. And that'll leave about 10 starts for the Tigers to either get back into the race or put him out on the market because he's going to be a free age in the fall. He's represented by Scott Boris. He's not going to resign with the Tigers. They're not going to pay him the 350 to $400 million deal that would be required to Keep him. And so the whole trade deadline is going to be wrapped around the question of who's going to get school ball. You know, the Yankees have been mentioned, which I. I just don't see it. They're loaded in the rotation. They're not going to overspend. We talked about the Cubs and their need. It's clear. But will the Cubs pay the high price? My instinct is no, that's not typically what they do. And it comes back to the usual suspects. The Dodgers, yeah, sure. Who are loaded and, you know, they. They can make a deal. And the San Diego Padres, A.J. preller, their general manager, historically aggressive at the trade deadline, and they have new ownership being approved next week. And what do new owners like to do? Come in and stamp a team.
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Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. But by the way, thank you for mentioning the Padres, who are coming into Washington in a couple of days. Fernando Tatis Jr. Makes a billion dollars a year and he has, like, no home runs. Right. What's with him?
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It's shocking. And he's putting the ball on the ground. And, you know, on the Internet, on Twitter, you'll see an X, you'll see the.
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That.
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Well, you know, since he was busted for peds, he doesn't hit for as much power. He's hit since he came back from that PED bust, so that's not it. I think he's someone who tinkers a lot, and he can get into ruts, and it's shocking how much he's putting the ball on the ground. And I think eventually he's going to come out of these two talented, not to at some point go on a run this year.
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The Yankees yesterday did something they had never done in the history of the franchise. The most celebrated, decorated franchise in probably all of sports, because baseball's been around the longest. It's not that they had 24 hits. They've had that before. Every single starter had two or more hits. That's inconceivable to me. It's inconceivable. Two or more hits, every starter.
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So it was neat on Monday. The Yankees were out taking batting practice before that broadcast that we did.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, half the team's out taking BP and Cody Bellinger is not taking batting practice, but he comes out to sit in the sunshine because it was like 80 degrees. And the Yankees, like a lot of teams have been playing in inclement weather for weeks. And he was like, this feels so good. And if you look at, you know, with the weather Turning around baseball yesterday, the offenses went off like they were. There are teams like, you know, Michael Harris of the Red Sox last night had four hits in a home run. You know, double digits from the Pirates, double digits from the Rangers, on and on and on. And yeah, I think the Yankees are one of the teams that took advantage of that. Plus they were facing the Royals, who have really struggled this year.
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Can I talk about the Nats? I never bring up the gnats to you. The Nats are pretty good right now. The Nats have been four in a row against division leading teams. Two in a row against Atlanta. Two in a row now against Cleveland. They're hitting the ball, which they never did before. Not, not. They're not the most powerful team. They've only really got two power threats in Wood and Abrams. And Abrams isn't, you know, he's a shortstop, let's be fair. But they're getting a lot of guys on. They're getting timely hits and they're pitching, which was disastrous for five years. And some of them are the same people. They seem to be better now. I don't expect you have spent a lot of time looking at them, but what are your thoughts on the redo there and the baby manager? The guy's 18 years old. What are your thoughts on this? He never has the same lineup twice.
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Yeah. Paul Taboni took over baseball operations last fall for the Nationals. And his best friend in college was Marcus Simeon, who's still playing, which tells you how long.
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Barry Svenga wrote a great piece about that. He did. It's a really great piece.
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It was a great piece.
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Yeah, it was a great piece.
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It was terrific. And of course he hires Blake Butera. He's the youngest manager in baseball. And, and I have been fascinated by how they're playing right now. They remind me, Tony, of those mid-90s Rockies teams where they are just piling up runs, the most runs in baseball. And you mentioned, you know, James Wood is legitimately a star. To see CJ Abrams improvement this year, I think he's in the. He should. He's in the race for being the starting shortstop at, for the National League and the All Star Game. That's how good he's been. He's on a pace this year to drive in about 135 runs. I mean, think about that. That's how good he is. And I actually the other day was checking with some people and saying, man, what, what, what got into him? Like to see his improvement. And what I got back was, is that he's responded to the energy level, you know, the work that he's doing with the coaching staff this year. It's really cool to see this happen. Now, the pitching, as you say, it's absolutely, at this point still disaster.
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Sure.
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But based on the improvements, offense, you feel like this team has a chance to be a force in a couple of years. And they're already. I turned on my power rankings yesterday. I never would have guessed at some point I'd have the nationals at 14 or 15. Never, never would have thought that they're actually in the playoff hunt.
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No, I mean, you know, you go into the year and you say it's a 60 to 65 win team. And then right now, and I watch every single game like it's possible they could be an 85 win team. It's possible. I mean, I don't think so, but it's possible. And, and they never have the same lineup twice. Never. I mean, he changes everything every single day. And clearly. And I don't know that people talk about this. I'd like to say I read about it, but the Washington Post doesn't have a sports section anymore. But I would say that there's certainly a new hitting coach and certainly a new pitching coach. And there appears to be a response, right?
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Yes, 100%. I actually can't wait to be. I haven't gotten a chance to be around the Nationals this year. But you can feel those things right? When you're around the team and you get a chance to talk to players and feel the energy when you see them play. It just feels like that this year there's so much attention to detail. And that really is reflected, I think, in the improvement of CJ because my perception of CJ Was, you know, he's okay. Coming into the year, you're thinking, he's okay. He's a young player. It seems like that, you know, from time to time he'd sort of make a brain dead mistake. And to see him now emerge into this kind of star, it's shocking and great.
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No, it is. It really is great. And he's. He's not the greatest fielder in the world. The Nats are not the greatest fielding team. Although Jacob. The outfield is good and Jacob Young is a great fielder. But, you know, C.J. abrams has had a really good year. James Wood last year led the universe in strikeouts and it still strikes out, but it's making much more contact, much more contact. So it's fun to watch them. It is. I. Let me know when you're going to come. We'll go to the game. That'd be great.
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That'd be great.
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Thank you, Buster.
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Absolutely.
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Tony. Good to talk with you, Buster.
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Only great fun to have him on the show. Always. We will come back with Taylor Twelman. I am Tony Kornheiser.
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You don't wash your jersey during a win streak.
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You don't switch seats when your team's
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up big, and you definitely don't shave during the playoffs.
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When things are working, you don't change them.
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That's why when you drink Jagermeister, you drink it ice cold.
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Anything else, well, that'd just be bad luck.
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Drink it cold or don't drink it at all. Jagermeister.
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Damn, that's cold.
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Drink responsibly.
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Jagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume.
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Imported by masked Jagermeister.
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Once again, this is Virginia Coalition. This is a song called Stella. And once again, we will mention that on May 29, which is this week, right? Friday, yes. They'll be playing at the Outer Banks as part of Pat McGee's down the Hatch Music Festival. Virginia Coalition. Michael, if independent groups like Virginia Coalition want to send in their music, how do they do?
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So send us your music by email, mailing it to jingles@tonykonisershow.com and plays in
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our friend Taylor Twelman. And I should say this segment with Taylor Twelman is brought to you by FanDuel. Play your game. Taylor is now on every Show In America, 15 ESPN shows a day and other shows as well. So we had him on the PTI show yesterday where he was great because he is routinely great. But I ask of all the shows that you do like, can you rate all the shows that you like or you don't like? You like us, don't you? You like us?
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Yeah, it's more of a love thing, you know, I'm not gonna lie to you. Like, it's, you know, longtime listener, first time caller type of thing. Tony and then I get invited and it's, you know, I wear my special underwear, special cologne, like it's, it's a real love thing.
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I think it's great. That jacket you rented for the show looked very good. You thanked Wilbon.
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Yeah, I returned it to Michael for
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you, by the way. By the way it is now, to be honest, it's a quarter to eight in the morning when we're taping this. Wilbon has already been on Sportscent. He was live at 7:30 on Sportscenter. He's going on no sleep whatsoever. Look, I have questions about soccer because I don't lie about this. I don't know anything about soccer. But they have released the roster. Is this the final roster or does it have to be pared down to a game roster?
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No, it's a great question. This is the final roster. But until the United States men play their first game, Tony, they can with injuries or whatnot. That is is the final roster. And I think it's a great question because many a times you name the roster, this is the first roster that they want. They play two friendlies. Going into the World cup, you have certain injuries, players may get, you know, Chris Richards, you and I are talking, as you said, 7:30 this morning. He plays a game tonight in England. Right. So he could get injured. You know, knock on wood. They don't obviously happen. So the first U.S. game, June 12, when that game kicks off, that is officially your roster for the World Cup.
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Okay. How many people are allowed on the roster?
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26. That changed after Covid. It used to be 23, but now it used to be only three subs. You can now make five subs. But Tony, you only get three instances in a game to make a subs. I know that's very confusing, but it's real simple. In the second half, once the game kicks off, you then get three times to make a sub. But you can sub five players in that time. And what happened during COVID was they realized that with the amount of games that these players are playing over 60 some odd games at the highest level and with international tournaments then coming into the summers, they change that. So it used to be 23 and then after Covid it's now 26.
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And do all 26 draft or is there a taxi squad? Okay, they.
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No, no. So you all dress, you're all part of that on game day roster, all of that.
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Yep.
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Okay. What was the biggest surprise or who was the biggest surprise either put in or left out?
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It's a good question because I don't
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pay me to ask good questions. I should ask. I'm not asking you the capital of Missouri. It's Jefferson City. I'm not asking you that.
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Oh, my God, it's Jefferson City. I only lived there for 20 years. I thought it was St. Louis. I would say this. It's that in you, and I kind of touched on it on PTI a little bit, is that I would say listening 10 Defenders was a huge thing for me. And I know this is for your listeners. They're probably like, what the hell is Taylor talking about? But you're going into a World cup in your own backyard and you're listing 10 defenders. They're not all going to play defender. They're going to play sometimes outside, back, wing, whatever it is. I would have listed it differently. And in Tony, I would have sent a message to everybody that we're going to be aggressive. We're going to be very, very forward thinking. Instead, it listed 10, 10 defenders, seven center backs. And you're sitting there going, wait a minute, what now? If you're looking for a player that surprised me, that wasn't on there, probably Diego Luna. And the only reason why I say that is for the last 18 months, he's been part of every marketing arm of the United States national team, whether it's the kit reveal with the United States and the FL flag, whether it was Fox using him and saying, you know, using an ad of saying, when the United States score and win the World cup final, guess who scored the goal in that ad? Diego Luna. So 18 months, Diego Luna has been the picture boy, the front of everything. And him not being named, I think surprises a lot of people. It didn't surprise me because Tony, since November, I said, he's on the outside looking in. But I think for the general public and your listener right now, now I think don't be surprised not to see Diego Luna on the roster.
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So I did a little bit of reading yesterday or the day before. Not much, just a little about the roster when it hadn't actually been officially revealed. But there was, you know, a lot of leaks. One of the stories talked about personal disappointments in the past, personal surprises. It led off with Donovan, Landon Donovan not being on one squad, but it also included you. Was there a year when you were left off and you said, are you kidding me? I'm not on this team, Tony.
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You know, a little bit of the history of my family. So I'll give you a quick story on that. My grandfather, who played 12 years in Major League Baseball, 19 years, pro ball. He was sick and not feeling great. In 2006, they announced the roster on our network on ESPN. It was sports center. And God bless his soul. Stuart Scott was with Bruce arena, who is the manager. And they told the public that was where the roster was. My name was not on that list. Stuart Scott's first question to Bruce arena is, how does the MVP of MLS not go? And Bruce didn't answer the question. My grandfather died 36 hours later.
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Wow.
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And it was a weird, very, very out of body, if I'm being transparent, experience for me, because it was a very. Pity Taylor. Pity this, pity that. I was really, really perplexed. I am the answer to a trivia question, Tony. I'm the only player in US men's history to lead a team in a World cup year in goals scored and assist and not go. And I didn't go. But when my grandfather passed and there's 100 people at my house watching that weekend, my next Revolution MLS game and I score four minutes in, Tony, I realized there's something much greater than us. There was an energy that day. There was something different. It was an out of body experience. And I scored that goal for my grandfather, for my mom and for the hundred people at my house. That was way bigger than anything for me. But yeah, the answer to your question, 2006 and then 2010. I got a concussion about 14 months before that tournament. I would have gone to that World Cup.
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But did you go in 2002?
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No, because I was young. I was still young.
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So you've never been in the World Cup?
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No, no. I've been an alternate many a times. Which is fun.
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Were you too old now or I would lead a campaign to get you on this team?
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No, it's great. Tony. Let's talk about my dog dying two years ago too. You want to.
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Okay. I'm going to move on.
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Actually, Tony, let's talk about Tahoe. I had the lead with four holes to go and I.
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That too.
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Anything else you want to do?
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No. Fine. We're going to talk. We just. You're the best guest in the world. We're going to. We're going to change something because I want to get back to the defensive thing because I want to see if I understand this. Everything is done. Rosters are chosen with a particular strategy. The overload of defense. Does that mean we're going to look at a team that's not going to try aggressively to score but is going to try aggressively to defend instead?
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I think they're going to do. Yes, it's a great, it's the perfect, perfect, simple way to put it. I would say this. They're going to. He's going to play three center backs. And what is a little odd about this is three center backs was not what he played in March. And you and I and Michael did a PTI show after the friendly and I was like, wait a minute, why are we changing this now?
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Right.
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And I was very surprised in those friendlies against Belgium and Portugal that he played two center backs. Well, now he's named a roster. Seven potential center backs, ten defenders. He's going to play three in the back. Now that doesn't mean he's not going to try and play in transition and try to play on the counter. But you are 100% defensive formation solidarity. That will be the foundation of this team. And Tony, it, it works. If everyone's fit and everyone's healthy, this team has potential to really be good in those transition moments because they're special players. The Pulisics, the McKenn way, as that's where they thrive. So it's, it's not a bad strategy. It's just an interesting road on how we got here.
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What group are we in? Who. Who are we playing in the, in the sort of round robin stuff? And are we the highest ranked among that group as I think we should be because it's a home tournament.
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Yeah, Tony, when the, when the draw came out, it was said it was an easy group and I immediately went out on social media and said, hang on a minute, it's a favorable group. And why do I have that different distinction? Well, first off, when the group came out, we didn't know that the team. Because it was a playoff and there was a choice and it could have been Kosovo, which works for the United States or Turkey. And Turkey is now the team that becomes a very, very difficult game. So Paraguay, Australia, Turkey, and those are your three teams in the group. It's very favorable. It's not, it's not easy though. But all three teams are beatable. But that final group stage game, Tony, is the biggest one because that will determine, in my opinion, the way this thing's laid out. If the United States win the group, they play a third place team coming out of the group and then it sets the stage for them going to the quarterfinal. But they have to win the group and I think the final game against Turkey will determine that.
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Okay, are all of our games in the USA or do we go to Canada or Mexico?
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Paraguay's in la. Australia's in Seattle. Turkey's in LA A.
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So that's good. That's good for us. Okay.
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That's advantage. Absolutely.
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And what are like, what are the realistic expectations? I mean I don't think anybody realistic thinks we're going to win this thing. But what, what would you say is the line of demarcation between a successful World cup for the United States and an unsuccessful one?
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I would say round a 16/quarterfinal. I think if you win the group. I would say quarterfinal. If you don't win the group. Round of 16 is your line in the. Then it determines how. Who comes where, how do they fall. I think the tournament goes to chalk, Tony. I really do. That means for me, I think the United States have to get to the quarterfinal.
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Okay, well, we're going to talk about a thousand more times. Because you know this and I don't know this and you're a fabulous guest. And yes, if you'd like, we could talk about you choking in a golf tournament. We could do that.
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We can actually have audio highlights of that too. That'd be great. That'd be awesome. Let's read.
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Thanks for being on. Thank you, Taylor. Thank you.
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See you boys.
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Taylor Twelman. This segment with Taylor Twelman has been brought to you by FanDuel. Play your game. He's fabulous. He's. I don't know anything about soccer.
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We'll get the cats ready for the next.
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Just fabulous. All right. From here we go to email and jingle and I'm Tony Kornheiser. Zootopia 2 has come home to Disney Plus.
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You're clearly working at Zootopia 2.
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Fits the rainy weather.
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It does. Is it supposed to rain this afternoon?
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Big thunderstorms.
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Sounds like 2009.
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Rod Laver Jr. Do you want to do the Bethesda bagel ad?
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Hot bagels today.
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Michael doesn't like the hot.
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I like a hot bagel.
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Okay.
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When it's properly stored.
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The shipping from the store.
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I don't want the Nigers to steam it.
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Before we get to the mailbag, let me just say how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand? Yes. And how many times must the cannonballs fly before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, friend is blown in the wind. The answer is blown in the wind. That is the first and arguably the most famous song that Bob Dylan ever wrote. And it celebrates the fact that the free wheel in Bob Dylan was released on this day 63 years ago. Yeah, 63. 63 years ago. He's been a star. And continues to play. Yeah, continues to play. Thanks to our guest today, Taylor Twelman and Buster only thanks as well to today's sponsor. Remember, you can listen to us on Apple podcasts, Spotify and Audacy of get show through Apple. Please leave us a review. We get this note from Paul Calderon who says Friday, game one, this is the Morgantown Regional in Morgantown, West Virginia. This is the baseball game one, Kentucky versus West Virginia, noon on ESPN2. And game two, number 16 in the country, in the country, West Virginia versus Binghamton, 5:00pm on ESPN plus.
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Let's go back.
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Why are we on ESPN plus? Why don't we on main ESPN, you know, and by the way, you're do live cut in. Thank you, Paul. I, I don't, I don't know. It starts at 5pm on Friday. We're going to be on the air.
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Well, that's going to preempt pti, right?
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Oh yeah, I hope so. Okay, this is a long one. This is from Bob Titus in Chardon, Ohio. Your Memorial Day words about the death of newspapers really struck home with me. I started my life as a newspaper junkie as an 11 year old paper boy in Painesville, Ohio in the nineteen nineteen fifties when I would pick up my papers every afternoon in the press room of the Painesville Telegraph. I would linger there, entranced by the roar and the papers rolling off the huge machines forward to 1970. Now married and back in Painesville after a long stint in the Navy. On Sundays I would make the 30 mile drive to downtown Cleveland in search of a paper box with any remaining copies of the Times. After inserting six quarters in the box, I would just hope that it would actually open. It often didn't, in which case the price would suddenly double and I didn't care. Finally, in the 90s, our local grocery store began carrying the Times. Then home delivery arrived. But around 2020, the service became undependable and the price seemed to rise almost monthly. And finally, I could no longer justify reading the news on paper. Not that long ago, when most people read some newspaper or other, you could walk into any lunch counter and find a disorganized pile of papers on the counter. The customers did each other the kindness of leaving their copy for the next guy if they were finished with it didn't matter if the next guy was replaced Republican or a Democrat. It was just something you did without thinking about it. I've often thought that those newspapers were something that tied us a little bit together. Not much TV and no Internet meant that we were pretty much reading the same thing, even if we were each interpreting it differently. We were in fact a very large community of newspaper readers. Our nation is worse off for its lacking. Anyway, that's how I see it. P.S. i hope you made a scrapbook of your work for your grandkids. It's not too late. I have some original copies somewhere. Somewhere in the house. That's a lovely letter. And. And I feel the same way. And by the way, I subscribe to the New York Times online. It's going up to thirty dollars. It started at five dollars, you know, two years ago. It's up to thirty dollars.
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Five dollar footlong.
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You know, it just. Yeah, it's just ridiculous. From. Who's this from? Daniel Kilday. Dan Kilday. Chuck and Roxy Episode 212 Dear Mr. Tony took a long time, but my David Aldrich moment has come full circle. Many years ago, you read an email from someone I. I recognized immediately. I knew him from my time as a television sports director in Macon, Georgia. He was the fresh out of Virginia Tech eager, energetic guy who was more than happy to drive out to the sticks of Wilkinson county to film a game or two for our Friday Night Football show. I lost touch with him when I left the industry in 2006, but after hearing you read an email from him on the air, I looked him up on social media. We reconnected over our shared status as loyal Littles. We stayed in touch and celebrated together whenever one of us had an email read on your show. A few years later, one of his social media posts stopped me cold. Hey, you remember when I said I was hiking the Appalachian Trail? I lied. I was actually filming Survivor. I was familiar with the show but had never watched it until his season My family and I cheered him on as he won an immunity challenge and screamed the cheesery at the top of his lungs. We cheered him on again in his return this season. While he didn't win the money either time, he was without question the MVP of both seasons. Rick Devins is exactly the person you see on your television screen. No act, no performance, just a genuinely pleasant, funny, joyful human being. And I could not be happier for him. But nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to hearing him as a guest on your podcast on Monday. It sounds silly, I know, but it brought me to tears. This little was now in my eyes a big thank you for having him on. I wish him every bit of success his future holds. And honestly, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Jeff Probst eventually retires and names Rick as his successor. The odds of that may be long, but they are aren't zero. Thanks again and tell Nick Milkey to eat it. It's a really good email from Rick Wallace in Weatherville, North Carolina. Three times a week, Mr. Tony talks with lifelong colleagues on familiar subjects. We take for granted the smooth flow of questions and answers. We forget that Dr. Hofwaff is actually a very skilled interviewer. The recent interview with stranger Rick Devins about a show which Mr. Tony has never seen was a master class. Thank you, thank you. Appreciate that. From Jason bullitt, chuck and roxy, 31 in saratoga county, new york. Dear captain potato farmer, they're going in today. Nigel and I are putting them in today. Today. Okay. Unless the. Unless we get rained out. Last week my nephew was on a school trip to Washington where he and his classmates and friends spent a few days. On their last night in town, they saw the Nats double up the Mets 8 to 4. The bullpen held thankfully and Andrew Alvarez got a four inning save. But to me, old sport, the highlight was when he visited the National Zoo on getaway day. I asked him if he saw any monkeys. He he did. I asked him if he saw one named Reginald. He looked at me like I had two heads.
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He's down there.
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Yeah. Chris McKenzie. I don't know Bill Isaacson, but I did go to high school with a kid named Bill, whose dad was Isaac. So I knew Bill, Isaac's son. Okay. From Tom. Okay. Dear Uncle Grandpa, I humbly seek the designation of official father of a Tim on the Tony Kornheiser show. Sincerely, Tom Thomas, son of Thor Ralph and father of Timothy Olsen, a Bay Ridge Brooklynite who shopped at the Saturday Night Fever hardware store and eventually retired in Loma Linda Pretty Hill in English, California Tim McGeary the official Dean of Libraries Chuck and Roxy 271 they talk to everybody. They're fabulous. On Monday, Bill Isaacson shared his experience being confused with another Bill Isaacson in a school. Well, I didn't have that issue in school, though there were three other Tims in my class of 125. There's another Tim McGeary with whom I've been confused. The other Tim McGeary is a musician, a guitarist, songwriter who had his music featured on television movies for a while. A Scottish radio station would include my Twitter handle. When featured that other Tim McGuire's music on their show, my mentions would go through the roof. But more bizarrely, I received a direct message from Jack Wagner. Yes, that Jack Wagner, who thought I was the other Tim McGeer theory because aside from being a scratch golfer on the celebrity tour and an actor, Jack is also a singer and they had jammed together and Jack was hoping to do so again. Ironically, my undergraduate degree is in music and I too have had music performed, but on much smaller platforms in different genre than Jack was looking for. From John Fergly in Ballston Spa, New York upstate. You're spot on about the Indy 500 being part of Americana. The month of May is bookended by two such events, the Kentucky Derby and the Riz Lincoln Cliff concluded Indianapolis 500. You also make a great point about newspapers back to 70s and 80s. My dad would subscribe to the Indianapolis Star for the month of May to keep up on what was going on. The papers would arrive two to three days late to our suburban Buffalo home, but the Star gave insights that no other outlet could. As a kid, I always looked forward to getting those papers so I could read about the legends Mario Andretti, AJ Ford, Johnny Rutherford, the Unsers, Alan Bobby, Rick Mears, Tom Sneeva, Jordan Gordon, John Cock. My dad attended four four five hundreds in the sixties and always said that the Indy 500 is something you should experience at least once. I heeded those words. I attended five five hundreds from 1989 to 1993. A spectacle indeed. My three kids and I are planning to attend the 2027500 not because we're huge auto racing fans, but because it is Americana, a reminder that this country still believes in traditions. My dad, who left us in 1990 will be smiling from Neil Ervace Tony in keeping with the tradition of the Pods once a year discussion of college lacroix, please allow me to express some school pride by sharing the achievement of the Tufts University men's lacrosse team, which on Sunday won its third straight NCAA D3 championship with a 1711 defeat of RIT that's Rochester Institute of Technology, a feat that had not occurred in 21 years. Over its four years, the lacrosse senior class has compiled an 85. 5 record with its only loss in a playoff scoring the championship game four years ago as credit to the school's preeminent stick sports programs with the reigning field hockey champions champions. The women's lacrosse team rallied from a six goal deficit in the semifinals to take undefeated and repeat champion Middlebury to overtime before falling after a disputed penalty called. These achievements are even more impressive as having somehow been accomplished without Wilbon on the sidelines. From Heath Stevens in Cincinnati. I don't have a band. I can't play an instrument. I definitely don't have a piano. The littles can still eat it. I called dibs on Lovelady and the baby manager. That's it. That's the email.
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That's a great bandage.
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And one more from Pat Smith in Annandale, Virginia. Since Memorial Day was kind of cold and rainy, I made a white bean chicken chili in the crock pot. Turned out pretty well. Both my teenagers ate it without complaining. If you're out on your bike tonight, everyone is always to wear white. Excuse me. Can I help you?
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Well, I'm here to pick up my date.
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Could you ring Fawn Lebowitz for me?
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You're probably right. Probably in control. They probably watch you walk away. Well, a line is just a line. But when you turn it on it's another line again. I figure it's all there is. Say, I wonder what you're doing here. I wonder what you're hiding under there. I wonder what you do when you get lonely. This is the part that you can't get around. And this is the part that your girlfriend likes. Wouldn't have it any other way. Well, you're moving mountains but you don't know why. And you're chasing heaven down the by and by. Wait another hour Won't you get a little bit louder for me? Take a little bit with you when you're gone, gone, gone, gone. You look at the world around you. You look at the television. You look at the things that make you larger. But this is the part that you can't get right. And this is the part that your girlfriend likes. Wouldn't have it any other way. Well, you're moving mountains but you don't know why. And you're chasing heaven down by. Wait another hour won't you get a little bit louder for me? It take a little bit with you when you're gone, gone, gone, gone. When you're gone, gone.
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Sad young man with the tear in
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his eyes Beginner to the broken heart he said, mama, no matter what glue I use My world just falls apart so he packed his bags and cat and hitchhiked up 95 and it was 2am the boy's eyes were red but he could see that skyline. Stella's going up to New York City I and I'm getting the pieces stuck in my heart she said she don't need me this time this time I'm falling Stella's leaving me for Sunday she got it all worked out it ain't cool where the sun don't shine it
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all
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there's no rest for the wicked child and Stella hadn't slept in days her mind was a haze in New York City Such a JD and cocaine
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she was just a crazy child Born
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of the son of a revolution oh and sifted through the sand but who knows who and she was like let's go downtown tonight I need Buddha so I don't mind dying Please don't let me fall asleep alone. Stella's going up to new New York City and I'm getting a piece of stuck in my heart she said that she don't need me this time this time I'm falling Stella's leaving me for Sunday she got it all worked out it ain't cool with the sun don't shine it all. Stella's going up to New York City and I'm getting the pieces stuck in my heart she said that she don't need me this time this time I'll be falling Stella's even be for Sunday she got it all worked out and it ain't cool when the sun don't
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shine at all Stella just won't slow
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down
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Just won't so down.