“Tony’s Big Day Out”

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Tony’s Big Day Out"

The Tony Kornheiser Show | October 31, 2025

Main Theme / Purpose

This episode captures Tony Kornheiser's signature blend of sports commentary, personal anecdotes, and lively banter with regular guests. The episode highlights Tony's eventful “big day out,” ponders etiquette and routines as fall arrives, covers pressing topics in baseball and football, features in-depth NFL analysis with Jason La Canfora, and presents weekly sports betting picks from James Carville and Jeff Ma, all in Tony’s wry, conversational style.

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1. Tony’s Big Day Out: The Perils of Errands and Autumn (02:16–11:54)

Key Discussion Points

• Golf Season Ends
  • Tony laments the end of his early tee times at Columbia Country Club due to daylight saving time and work obligations.
  • He was unable to play his last round due to the rain.
  • “Yesterday was the last day of the month of October where you could play golf at Columbia starting at 8 o’clock… So yesterday was my last day to play and I couldn’t play because of the rain.” — Tony (01:40)
• Errand Misadventures
  • Outlines a morning plan involving a barbershop, Columbia for coffee, post office, bank, and a liquor store, only for it all to go awry due to incorrect opening times and wardrobe mishaps.
  • Tony tries to sneak into his club wearing jeans before Nov. 1 (a no-no).
  • He treats routine banking like a “math exercise” to fight off dementia.
• Wine Search & Celebrity Recognition
  • Describes trying to buy his favorite Beaujolais, ending up ordering a whole case because the clerk was excited to discover who Tony was.
  • “He seemed to be joyful at meeting me, but he didn’t know me originally. And my son says, I’m quoting accurately… ‘That’s because you walk around dressed like a homeless man.’” — Tony (08:47)
• Humorous Commentary
  • The hosts poke fun at Tony for his attire.
  • James Carville remarks, “Reminiscent of Charles II,” referencing Tony blending in among common folk (09:46).

Notable Moments

• Michael Wilbon describes Tony’s routine: “It’s like a Richard Scarry Busy Town book where you’re just going all around Tony’s busy town.” (07:04)
• Tony is recognized by voice, not appearance, at the liquor store (08:36-09:21)

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2. Quick Takes: Royals, Fall, and World Series Preview (11:44–14:51)

Key Discussion Points

• British Royals
  • Tony and guests riff on Prince Andrew losing his titles due to scandal, musing about the meaning of “royalty” and last names.
  • “He didn’t even have—they have no last names.” — Tony (09:56)
• World Series Latest
  • Discussion about Game 6, prospects for the Blue Jays vs. Dodgers, and pitcher performances.
  • Debates around the impact of bullpen usage and star players.
  • “If the starter doesn’t go at least seven, then they’re doing now with Yamamoto…” — Michael Wilbon (12:41)
  • “The top of the order in game five was one for 15 with eight strikeouts. First four guys can’t have that.” — Tony (13:06)

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3. NFL Insights with Jason La Canfora (16:34–29:43)

Key Discussion Points

• Ravens vs. Dolphins Recap
  • Miami's poor coaching and strategic decisions were crucial in the loss.
    • “It really was a master class and to me trying to get fired by Mike McDaniel.” — Jason (16:34)
    • “The play calling was insipid... attempting field goals with a bad kicker early…” — Jason (16:55)
  • Ravens’ second-half resurgence and their need for defensive help.
• Coaching Hot Seats
  • Speculation that Miami head coach Mike McDaniel could be fired soon.
    • “You’re not going to be surprised if Mike McDaniel is fired today, are you? I’m not.” — Tony (19:03)
    • “Getting the hell out of here seems like priority number one for McDaniel.” — Jason (20:10)
• Lamar Jackson’s Status
  • Jason praises Lamar’s talent and ability to elevate the team even with less surrounding talent and offensive line issues.
    • “When healthy, he’s the most transformational talent in this league… I think he covers up more warts than anybody.” — Jason (20:28)
• Baltimore Orioles Managerial Hire
  • Jason is skeptical: new hire is in line with the GM’s own limitations; not a real search for experience.
    • “He ain’t a major league GM, and now he got a promotion…” — Jason (23:04)
• Washington Nationals New Manager
  • Surprised at the Nats hiring a 33-year-old manager; reflects a deliberate organizational overhaul.
• Indianapolis Colts Assessment
  • Jason is bullish: “If you told me they’re in the AFC Championship Game at this point, I don’t know that I would flinch. I think they’re legit.” (27:56)
• Betting Plug
  • Jason plugs his Wannabet platform, claiming “well over 90 units documented since May 21.” (28:39)
• Hoodie Joke Thread
  • Tony and Jason keep up playful banter about a hoodie given away (29:05–29:43).

Notable Quotes

• “This is the best quarterback rating anybody’s ever had. 140-something. Yeah, it’s pretty good.” — Tony & Jason on Lamar (22:08)
• “He’s a renaissance man and a world traveler these days.” — Jeff Ma on Rufus, his betting partner (42:04)

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4. James Carville’s Picks and Fiery LSU Rant (30:27–37:56)

Key Discussion Points

• Political Interference in College Football
  • Carville is incensed about the governor of Louisiana interfering in LSU football hiring (“public castration”), threatens to burn his diplomas and brings up legal action for “actual malice.”
    • “The reputational damage that has been done to our university is incalculable.” — Carville (32:14)
• Carville’s Picks
  • College/NFL picks with plenty of negotiation on lines (Rice, Texas, New Mexico, Houston, Seattle).
  • Stresses “money is another thing” when picking against sentimental favorites.
  • “Sugar’s sweet, so is honey—beat your meat and save your money!” — Carville sign-off (36:29)

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5. Jeff Ma’s Picks & The Art of Golf at Shadow Creek (38:35–44:46)

Key Discussion Points

• Anecdotes
  • Tony marvels at Carville burning diplomas, asks Jeff what would make him do the same with his MIT diploma.
  • Jeff details an exclusive golfing event at Shadow Creek, Las Vegas:
    • “It is an oasis in the middle of the desert... every hole is perfect.” — Jeff Ma (39:06)
• Betting Picks
  • Jeff offers college football picks (Virginia, Baylor, Texas Tech) and NFL picks (Colts, Seahawks).
  • Notes Seattle’s defensive strength, discusses Colts’ hidden value.
  • “Colts, minus the three over Pittsburgh. I can't speak to Indianapolis, but I've seen Pittsburgh two or three times. They're not good.” — Tony (43:24)

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6. Listener Mail: Wit, Tradition, and Littles’ Lore (45:03–end)

Key Discussion Points

• Mailbag
  • A joyful marriage and new baby thanks to an “Annie Kress mailbag jingle.”
    • “Annie was over the moon when you added her jingle to your rotation, so thank you for that.” — Claudius (45:25)
  • Advice on saving pumpkins from squirrels, memories of little league heroics, and more.
  • Letters on everything from eminent domain to the Dallas sports-arena drama, to fact-checking past contract stories and frequent show references.
• Show Community
  • Continues the tradition of reading charming, personal, and oddball listener emails.

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7. Notable Quotes, Quips, and Moments

• “Do you think I really dress like a homeless [man]? ...In the pre-show hours, you don't dress for the occasion.”
  — Tony & Michael Wilbon (09:25–09:37)
• “[Miami] really was a master class and to me trying to get fired by Mike McDaniel.”
  — Jason La Canfora (16:55)
• “Sugar’s sweet, so is honey—beat your meat and save your money!”
  — James Carville (36:29)
• “It is an oasis in the desert… every hole is perfect.”
  — Jeff Ma on Shadow Creek (39:06)
• “You're not going to be surprised if Mike McDaniel is fired today, are you? I'm not.”
  — Tony (19:03)
• “If you told me [the Colts] are in the AFC Championship Game at this point, I don't know that I would flinch.”
  — Jason La Canfora (27:56)

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8. Suggested Listen Timestamps

• 02:16 – Tony’s autumn morning routines & wardrobe mishaps
• 07:04 – Michael Wilbon’s “Tony’s busy town” analogy
• 11:44 – Brief debate on British monarchy & Prince Andrew
• 12:41 – MLB World Series game analysis
• 16:34 – Jason La Canfora on Ravens-Dolphins and NFL
• 20:27 – Jason on Lamar Jackson’s talent
• 30:27 – James Carville’s LSU rant, followed by his picks
• 38:35 – Jeff Ma on Shadow Creek & betting picks
• 45:03 – Mailbag: relationships, advice, quirky show lore

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Final Thoughts

With signature dry humor, grumbling self-awareness, and expert-level sports insight, this episode exemplifies why "The Tony Kornheiser Show" has legions of devoted “Littles.” From the foibles of fall routines and golf privation to sharp takes on NFL coaching drama and impassioned academic pride, expect laughs, opinions, and plenty of inter-generational wisdom.

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For newcomers, frequent listeners, or sportsheads who missed the episode: this recap distills the heart, wit, and community spirit of “Tony’s Big Day Out.”

Transcript

[Tony Kornheiser]

Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will talk to Jason Locanfor about what we learned from the Ravens win over the Dolphins last night, as well as what else to look out for this weekend in the NFL. And we'll also get weekly picks from James Carville and Jeff Ma. But first, let's do some commerce, boys and girls. This is the Tony Kornheiser Show. Tony Kornizer Show. The MLB postseason is in full swing. Keep up with the World Series. With T Mobile, the best network in America according to OOKLA speed test. With the most towers, a signal that goes farther than ever before, and the most advanced 5G, you can catch even more of the postseason. They have the coverage needed to catch every pitch, play and post game. So whether you're streaming the games out and about, checking stats on the road, or cheering on your team at the ballpark, you're connected. Wherever your fandom takes you, head over to T mobile.com network to switch to the best network for baseball fans. And it's better over here. Previously on the Tony Kornheiser Show. I like Almond Joy.

[Michael Wilbon]

I've grown to appreciate an Almond Joy.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I liked Almond Joy in Mounds. I think the dark chocolate and Almond Joy had milk chocolate till you found out it was actually fake chocolate when you read the stuff's not really chocolate.

[Jeff Ma]

Yeah.

[James Carville]

Do they still do unicef? Is that a thing for the kids?

[Michael Wilbon]

I have not seen that. Is that we pulled out of the.

[Tony Kornheiser]

UN The Tony Kornheiser show is on now. All right. So yesterday was a turning point in my year. Yesterday was the last day. Thursday was the last day of the month of October where you could play golf at Columbia starting at 8 o' clock in the morning, which is all I can do because I have to be on a call at 11 o' clock in the morning with PTI and now it moves because we're going back to standard time. It's going to move to 9 o' clock in the morning now. I'm not going to be able to play because I got to get off the course by about 10:15, take a shower, go home, do this call. So I mean, I'm not going to be able to play. So yesterday was my last day to play and I couldn't play because of the rain. You know, there were no carts allowed and I wasn't going to go out.

[Michael Wilbon]

There was pouring right at that 8am it was pouring.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah, Just pouring in the morning. So I made a plan.

[Michael Wilbon]

It's a good thing you were dressed for it.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yes, I was dressed for it. And we'll get to my dress in a second and what I was wearing. So I made a plan to do other things. And these things included going to the barber shop on Brookville Road in Chevy Chase to try and get my beard trimmed because I don't do it myself anymore because I do it badly. And so I let somebody else do it and then go to Columbia, take a shower and then go to the post office, which would then open at nine and I would be in time and then go to the bank and then go to the liquor store, which opened at 10 to try and get Chateau Cambon, which is a Beaujolais that I like.

[Michael Wilbon]

So you know it well.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah, I had everything planned. Everything planned in order. And I left the house at about 10 to 8 to go over to the barber shop, which opens at 8. Open seven days a week, 8 o'. Clock. And they have a sign, you know, that we open eight o' clock in the morning. So I go over and I park behind the stores, you know, the Brookville stores with Brookville Pharmacy, Market, Brookfield Market, all of those things. And I walk. I walk to the barbershop, the back entrance of the barbershop. And it doesn't look open to me. It doesn't look open. And the reason it doesn't look open is because it isn't open. And it says, we open at 9. Okay, so I had that wrong. So this now throws everything off in my day. And now I'm gonna go to Columbia and just 45 minutes, take a shower and drink coffee because I can't play golf, you know. And then I realize as I'm getting out of the car to walk into Columbia that I'm wearing jeans. And you can't wear jeans until November 1st.

[Michael Wilbon]

Neat denim.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I'm off by two days. It's October 30th, yesterday. And I go, oh, no, know. So I try to sneak in, you know, I don't skulk it about. Yeah. I don't want anybody to see me. And I go. When I go upstairs to get coffee, I make sure nobody's in there, you know, And I'm upset. And so then I wait and I wait and I wait and I think, all right, I'll go back over to the barber shop. I'll. I won't wait till 9. I'll bank on the fact that somebody will be there a little ahead of nine.

[James Carville]

Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

So I go, and somebody is there. The woman who owns the shop is there.

[Michael Wilbon]

I was hoping there was a line no.

[Tony Kornheiser]

And I. There was nobody else. I was not gonna wait. It was either gonna be me or the highway at that point. So she said, yeah, I'll take you. And, you know, and so. Okay, so we. I get that done, and now I'm sort of back on schedule. I'm back on schedule. And now when I'm done, it's after nine. So the post offices are open. Now, it's possible the post offices are open at 8, but in my mind, 9. The post offices are open at 9. I no longer mail letters in the box. Just too many letters get stolen in the box.

[Michael Wilbon]

Yeah, the skeleton keys.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I only give letters to mail carriers. Or I go inside a post office and drop them into the slots. That's all I do.

[Michael Wilbon]

You still do the old school move where you leave outgoing mail by your mailbox at the slot at your house?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yes, I do that. You know.

[Michael Wilbon]

Do you ever stop a truck that you see in the neighborhood?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yes, I've done that because Vincent is my mailman. And I say, vincent, I'm sorry.

[Michael Wilbon]

Yeah, you're on the end of the route.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. So it's. So I'm good with that. So I do that and then I go to the bank. I have these four small checks to cash at the bank. They are residual checks, you know, for like $1.12 or, you know, and it's not much money. And I. I do this thing to ward against dementia. I add up all of the checks that I have, and then I try to find change to get to the next dollar or as close to the next dollar as I can. And then I tell them what denominations I want the money back in. It's ones or fives, you know, if I have more, it's a 20. And then I go and present myself to the teller who I know at the bank and very proudly say, you know, I. I'm not really good at math, but I've got a high school diploma. It included math courses I took. And I think, good, this is how.

[Michael Wilbon]

It'S going to be telling jokes at this point. Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

And then he adds it up. Well, he can't wait to get rid of me. Then he adds it up. And then I find if I'm right, we're all happy, and we're all happy.

[James Carville]

It's a win.

[Tony Kornheiser]

So that was. And I had that yesterday, and I was fine. So then I go home because now it's like 9:30, 9:40. Liquor store doesn't open until 10:10.

[Jeff Ma]

Right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

So I have to wait a little while. Then I go I get to the liquor store pretty much at the moment it opens, because I'm that guy, you know? I mean, if you say you. Oh, that's. I am that person. I am an obsessive, compulsive, disordered human being. I understand it.

[James Carville]

Usually the guy trying to get in a liquor store right when it opens is. Is a little robbing store, or he's like, I really need a drink.

[Tony Kornheiser]

No, no, no, it's not you. So I go to the store.

[Michael Wilbon]

I just love the breakdown of your morning. It's like a. It's like a Richard scary busy town book where you're just going all around Tony's busy town.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I have to have something to do.

[Michael Wilbon]

You would lowly work.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I have to have something to do. So. So now I go to the liquor store, and I walk into the liquor store, and this is Bassin's Liquor Store.

[Michael Wilbon]

Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Oh, yeah, I go to Bassin's Liquor Store. Now you say, well, what happened to Calvin Wood? Well, Calvin Willie doesn't have this wine. So I am now trying other places to see if they have this wine. So the fellow there.

[Michael Wilbon]

So I have given you one store locally that has this wine.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Hopkins Bath and Beyond. What's it called?

[Michael Wilbon]

It's Cask and Barrel on Wisconsin Avenue.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay, so I.

[Michael Wilbon]

It's below the Social Safeway.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay, so I.

[Michael Wilbon]

Parking is.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I didn't do well. Parking is difficult at this other place. Anyway, go in. I go in. There's a guy there. There's two guys there, and there's a woman there at the cash register. And, you know, and I say, I'd like this one. And so he goes in the back and he says, like, we don't have this wine, but I can get you this wine. Let me work on this getting in this wine. In the meantime, the other Beaujolais. Our Beaujolais are here. I'll pick out. I said, pick out three for me. So he picked out three.

[Michael Wilbon]

Do a little tasting.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. You know, and so, you know, we'll see how that works. And. And so then he comes back out and he says, I can get you a case. Now, I. I don't really want 12 bottles, but. But he's gone to this effort, and I'm there, and I can't really say to him, now how about just five, you know? So I say, okay. I say, okay. So he says, let me get your information. And he asked for my phone number, and he asks for my email address.

[Michael Wilbon]

Washington Post number.

[Tony Kornheiser]

No, no, I gave him my cell phone number. And then he Asked for my name. And I say, kornheiser, you know, and. And first thing I say, like, you're.

[Michael Wilbon]

Working a story, Tony.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Well, I give you last. His name's Coenizer, Tony. And he looks up, he's got that look of wonder on his face, like, oh, you are you. And I go, yeah. And he goes, wow, I'm a big fan and I should have known it from the voice, you know. And I go and I tell my son this story yesterday, and I say, he seemed to be joyful at meeting me, but he didn't know me originally. And my son says, I'm quoting accurately, years. He says, that's because you walk around dressed like a homeless man. You were.

[Michael Wilbon]

You were wearing denim before November 1st.

[Tony Kornheiser]

A homeless man. Yeah. So I thought that was funny. I told that to a few people yesterday. Do you think I really dressed like a homeless? I think.

[Michael Wilbon]

I think when you were in the. Yeah, the pre show hours, you don't. You don't dress for the occasion.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Oh.

[James Carville]

So anyway, there was an English king, I want to say Charles ii. Who. His favorite thing was to dress up like a commoner and just sort of blend in. Sort of.

[Michael Wilbon]

Yeah.

[James Carville]

Reminiscent of Charles ii.

[Michael Wilbon]

You're doing your errands.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Speaking of that, there is no more Prince Andrew.

[Michael Wilbon]

Oh, no, he's the title.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He's not going to be the prince.

[James Carville]

Mr. Windsor or something like that.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He didn't even have. They have no last names.

[Michael Wilbon]

This happened with Harry. They have to come up with a last name.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. When they fill out forms to get a credit card, they have to have a last name. They don't have any name. You make up any name they remember since. And he's kicked out of the Palace.

[Jeff Ma]

Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He's. So my feeling about this is. I'm sure this has to do with his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. I understand that. And it's a really bad look. And I understand that. And he may be guilty of terrible. I understand all of this, but this guy was in fact, to the manner born, this guy's a prince. This guy never learned to do anything and was always taught, whatever you do, just, you're okay. You're the prince. He don't know how to do anything. He wasn't going to be the king. So he doesn't have. He didn't have to do anything. Yeah. He's in his 60s, right. Maybe his 70s, 65 and throwing him out.

[James Carville]

Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

They're throwing him onto the street. Does he have any money? Like he had money.

[Michael Wilbon]

I'm sure there are still some protections in place. Just because the liability of getting him too far from you would be something you'd have to worry about.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I. I would let him stay in the basement. I would. I'd let him stay in the basement.

[Michael Wilbon]

Got kitchen duty, something.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I give him a job, take orders.

[James Carville]

His official name now, what is his name? Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. It's a madeup name.

[James Carville]

Can't be Prince.

[Tony Kornheiser]

No Prince. Now what happens to his wife? What happens to his kids? Are they still royal?

[James Carville]

I think I saw something that the kids quietly left the uk.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I don't know. Right.

[James Carville]

Yeah. I don't know. I think they get to retain their titles and I don't know because Fergie and him are divorced.

[Tony Kornheiser]

But they're together.

[James Carville]

Yeah, they're sort of live together. Yeah. So I. I'm assuming she would lose the Duchess of York as well.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Odd.

[James Carville]

Yeah, just odd.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Game six tonight.

[James Carville]

Game six.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You know what I feel bad about doing the PTI show. The series is going to be over no later than Saturday night and by Monday it's going to be over.

[James Carville]

Yeah.

[Michael Wilbon]

And you know, and little thing called the NFL Sunday.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah, right. It's over. And then I. If I want to look back on it, Wilbon's just going to want to talk about Victor Wembanyama anyway. For hours and hours and hours of Victor Wembanyama and you know, got to.

[Michael Wilbon]

Be fair for a daily show. You guys are getting historical performances it seems every night, whether it's Ohtani and.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It'S been great home runs or you have. It's been great. So now, now all we can do today is preview game six. Michael, who do you think's winning?

[Michael Wilbon]

It certainly feels like the Blue Jays at this point. I feel like you're going to know in the first, in the. In the top of the order if Guerrero goes deep again. Done.

[James Carville]

You think it's Yamamoto tonight, right?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yamamoto who's pitch great.

[James Carville]

I think. I think the Dodgers will win tonight and then who knows in game seven.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Well, the problem for the Dodgers is if the starter doesn't go at least.

[Michael Wilbon]

Seven, then they're doing now with Yamamoto. He always only uses two or three pitches in that first time or the first two times through the order, depending on how quickly he's going. So he has, if things are going well, he goes seven innings and you don't have to get to that bullpen.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's right.

[Michael Wilbon]

And it just feels like the mistakes with the bullpen were just amplified by putting that one person in first. But it feels like the top of the order for the Dodgers has to do something. I mean, Mookie Betts has been really quiet.

[James Carville]

Oh, yeah, they dropped him in the order. Yeah, he's been.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Dropped him to number three. It's not like they dropped him to number eight. Right. But he's the top of the order in game five was one for 15 with eight strikeouts. First four guys can't have that.

[Michael Wilbon]

Now, to be fair, the movement that you, Savage was getting was.

[Jason Lockenfora]

How about.

[Tony Kornheiser]

How about you, Savage?

[James Carville]

Yeah, that was how.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Guy who started the year pitching for the Dunedin team in South Florida against the Jupiter hammerheads, paid attendance 327 and now starting on the road and I thought he'd cave. I had it wrong, of course. Yeah, I had it wrong. I thought he'd cave completely.

[Michael Wilbon]

So this broadcast always does a really good job with breaking down starting pitchers.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Well, John Smoltz.

[Michael Wilbon]

Right. But the way they were doing the math behind his release point and the difference between what he was throwing versus everyone else in the league, just in terms of the height.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah.

[James Carville]

So who would pitch in game seven? It would be Ohtani for the Dodgers, Right?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Sure.

[James Carville]

And then would it be the warrior God?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Might be. I mean, he wasn't terrible. He got into the fifth.

[James Carville]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He gave up two solo home runs. But he had the lead.

[James Carville]

Yeah.

[Tony Kornheiser]

When he left. Now, that he wouldn't have gotten that. Everybody has forgotten who started in the 18 inning game, that it was Scherzer and who's a Dodger? Glasno. Glasnow. Tyler Glasno. But, you know, Max wouldn't have gotten the win had they won the game because he didn't go full five.

[James Carville]

Right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You know, he just. What? He got four and a third.

[James Carville]

Four and a third, I think.

[Tony Kornheiser]

But he was, you know, he was.

[Jason Lockenfora]

All right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

All right. So that's tonight. People can watch that. And, you know, we're not gonna. I don't know what we're gonna do on Monday. It's gonna feel really old by Monday and the football is going to just overrun it by Monday.

[Michael Wilbon]

Maybe this is just local for us, but it just feels like the last three days fall has officially arrived and we're now in it. I mean, you see with the leaves, you see with the sports changing, everything's college football, everything's NFL right now.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. All right, we'll take a break. Jason Lockin for it when we return. I'm Tony Kornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show.

[Cooper Flagg]

Cooper Flag will be the mvp. The Jays will Win the series and probably repeat the Colts will win the Super bowl maybe three straight. Carla Zacharads wins 35 majors. It's fate.

[Dan Byrne]

Slow down, Sparky, easy win Benyama. Remember when NC State played five slam a jama? Slow down, Sparky, easy Rookie, you ain't Jack the Ripper just cause you played.

[Cooper Flagg]

Hooky Tom Brady couldn't hold Derrick May's jock for the hall of Fame Ellie De La Cruz is a lock the Maple Leafs will definitely win the Stanley Cup Hubert Davis is as good as.

[Dan Byrne]

Adolph Rupp hold on, Sparky Easy Neophyte off of my lawn don't believe the height the sunshine is fleeting Put on your windshield wipers Slow down, Sparky Time to change your diapers.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's the great and brilliant Dan Byrne who likes when either will Bon or I say hold on a second spark before fabulous conclusions are made that are insane. Anyway, it's very, very nice plays in Jason Lock and Fora. We start, of course, with what we start with every week. What, if anything, did we learn from last night?

[Jason Lockenfora]

It's alive. Frankenstein.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Look man, first half wasn't so alive, but you had to expect some rust even for the great and. And heroic Lamar Jackson. I mean, boy, I. There's a part of me that just feels like as much as Miami has been irrelevant, is irrelevant, will remain irrelevant. There was almost maybe more to learn about their just utter and complete desire. And by that I mean the head coaches for irrelevancy. I mean, talk about punting on your season after you just maybe sort of potentially saved it. Against Atlanta, the play calling was insipid. The lack of any pace or cadence when you're down multiple scores was insipid. Like the attempting field goals with a bad kicker early when you know Lamar's rusty in the first half and he's showing you he's rusty in the first half and you've got every chance in the world against what's been a bad defense to make them play from behind on the road and the false starts when you finally do decide, yeah, maybe we should go for this fourth down or insipid. I mean, running the ball at the end of the first half when you've only got one timeout left and you know your quarterback can't throw it 40 yards downfield, let alone 50 or 60, so Hail Marys are out of the question. It really was a master class and to me trying to get fired by Mike McDaniel. But the Ravens, you know, did what they had to do first half. Again, they're lucky that McDaniel coached that way, or they could have given up 300 yards in the first half easy. And then they, you know, they were the better team. They outclassed their opponent in the second half. TUA was going to throw you potential picks over the course of a game. They took some late in the game, they got Henry going late in the game, but it's still a scattershot, staccato run game. This is not what we've seen from them on the ground in years past. And I think a bad offensive line has a lot to do with it. But at the end, the end, Lamar was the star. And the Ravens get nine days off again until they play, and there's a trade deadline in the interim that they'll probably use what they better use to buttress their defensive line, at least to some degree. And we'll see if this Guy takes up McDaniel on his offer and fires him because, my God, is he begging for it.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. Yeah. You're not going to be surprised. They, you know, they don't play for 10 days. You're not going to be surprised if Mike McDaniel is fired today, are you? I'm not.

[Jason Lockenfora]

I mean, I was shocked he wasn't fired two Mondays ago. So there is a part of me that. And there's people in the league who also think that this owner sees it for what it is, which is a guy who wants to get six months to contact with his agents. Right. And rebrand himself. Or three months, whatever it is, between now and January when people start stalking their staffs and spend the holidays home with his kids. You know, keep earning the same money you'd be earning if you're in the building 18 hours a day. And then figure out if you're, you know, are you going with Kyle Shanahan to be his run game coordinator? Is there a college program that wants to hire you as their head coach? What. What are my options? But getting the hell out of here seems like priority number one for McDaniel. But I. But, you know, Ross might just say, hey, I see it for what it is, and you're stuck. You're stuck here. But yes, I mean, that was a master class and trying to be able to trick or treat with your kids today and not have to worry about somebody going to knock me out because I'm not in the building.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I'll get off Miami. I'll go to Lamar. It's early. He's been out for three weeks. Whatever it was when you saw him last night and when you saw him early in the year when he was healthy. Is he who he was or has he taken a step back?

[Jason Lockenfora]

No.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay.

[Jason Lockenfora]

No, he's. To me, when healthy, he's the most transformational talent in this league. Think he covers up more warts than pretty much anybody else. I think he hits notes routinely that other people hit and that's everybody. Now Mahomes with this cast around him is, is, you know, and I don't. Because of what he's done in the playoffs. I can't, I can't say Mahomes is.

[Tony Kornheiser]

The best football player on the play.

[Jason Lockenfora]

I can't say he's a better quarterback than Patrick Mahomes. But I think you look at how many times he's had games now where he's accounting for four or five touchdowns running or passing and no turnovers and the balls in his hands 50 times. And again, like we can talk about the cast like Rashad Bateman is, I mean he's, he's, he's, he's got issues, I'll put it that way. And that's his number one downfield receiver and he's no great shakes. And there's people in that franchise who even though they don't have a ton in terms of downfield receivers, almost feel like getting them out of the buildings addition by subtraction. Like he's got tight ends who had been pretty non productive to this point, but you saw what they productive last night. When things are right now, that's also Miami team that's broken.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah.

[Jason Lockenfora]

But Derek Henry I think is starting to hit the wall a little bit and needs to be perfect. Everything's got to be perfect around him now. And it's not going to be most weeks. No, I think, I think Lamar Jackson is, I mean I think he's. This is the best quarterback rating anybody's ever had.

[Tony Kornheiser]

140 something. Yeah, it's pretty good.

[Jason Lockenfora]

I mean and, and he, he's, he's. Yeah, he's, he's special now.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Things around like a lot around him is not as good as it was last year. Last year you could pencil in Ronnie Stanley for every snap, every game at a, at a well above average level. He was out of that game again last night and you could tell me it's rest or whatever, but they're not getting left tackle play the right tackles regress. The center's in a contract here and he's got two guards next to him who don't belong in the league. So it's dragging him down like they finally got that Ricard back, but they didn't have him early in the year, really, the first six games of the year. That was a problem. No, I think Lamar is a special.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Let me move on to something else entirely different and just tap into your knowledge as somebody who does daily radio work in Baltimore. The Baltimore Orioles just named a new manager. I was completely unfamiliar with him. Do you like the hire?

[Jason Lockenfora]

I mean, I like it for what it is. They were never going to do what they should do, which is when you have these rebuilds and you're seven or eight years into it, you haven't won a playoff game yet. The onus is on getting in a manager who's more experienced than the general manager because it's clear the general manager can't complete the job like the general manager was the guy to tear it down and build you a new facility in the Dominican and hire an international director who actually has connections with agents so he can help you sign kids like Sam Basio. And he's a good guy to help your IT and infrastructure and trackman systems all up to date. He ain't a major league gm and now he got a promotion and you knew he's not hiring anybody more experienced than him, even though that's what's required here, right. To put them over the top. Because that would threaten him. That person might have their own ideas. That person's got their own background. That person might have their own analytics people they want to bring with them. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. So of what he was looking for, which is someone who's never done it before, someone who's worked for small market teams, because my God, does this billionaire want you to know how barren and fecund and. And all the landscape. We're so small market and it's just so tough. So, like, he wants somebody who's been with the Guardians or been with the race, somebody who's managed a long time in the Miners because we're basically running the minor league operation up here. Like, not. We don't want to sign any real players. We just want to. We just want to, you know, work with these kids who are still, you know, arbitration eligible. So, no, for what it was, I like it. But like the fact that they were never going to entertain Bruce Poche. They were never going to entertain Snit. They were never going to entertain Girardi. Right. They weren't even entertained. Derek Shelton, who I really liked and got a real raw deal in Pittsburgh.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Well, now he's in Minnesota now. So he's okay.

[Jason Lockenfora]

I'm fine with it. And the fact that they're not bringing back the puppet who they had as the interim, I mean, that's addition by subtraction in a big way. But I still don't think it was a real managerial search.

[Tony Kornheiser]

What do you think of the Washington nationals hiring a 33 year old kid?

[Jason Lockenfora]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know much about that individual I've never heard of. We were paying, we were paying a little bit of attention to it here because I have a bet with the clowns. I do my radio show with that. Brandon Hyde was not getting that job. And Brandon Hyde wasn't really ever going to be in strong consideration for that job. But because he managed right down the road and won a managerial award and everybody's seen him on Mass and for five years, I knew he'd at least get probably an interview. I mean, look, it's clear to me that they're going in a completely different direction than what it was under Rizzo. Right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I mean they're getting rid of everybody. Everybody.

[Jason Lockenfora]

And it's not only just that, but it's going in such a like diametrically opposed way to how he would have handled this higher if he got it, you know, like I don't think he's hiring a 33 year old. Like, I don't think that's even on his radar, no matter who that person is. Yeah, I mean this is kind of a big year for them, I think so.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I'm sorry to just stick you on baseball. Let me, let me look, let me ask you one football question. One more football question which interests me and I know you've written about it actually. How good are the Indianapolis Colts?

[Jason Lockenfora]

I think they're really good. I think there are enough people I really trust in this league have told me they're really good for me to believe it. Like I'm not watching, you know, their games as religiously as people who have to scout them or people who work for NFL teams and they want to. They're like, well, this team's really good. Let me study them. Because they might have some depth. Guys who we might want to sign as free agents in a year or whatever. No, like they're the secondary scares people. They're really undersized. That corner. I wonder if they're the team that gets reek Wooten, the 64 corner from Seattle who's kind of fallen out of favor there. We've got to add size to their DBs and get maybe a little bit more physical back there. I think the offense is really good. I mean, I think Daniel Jones is kind of think this is Cinderella and it's turning into a pumpkin now. I don't know that he's going to complete 75% passes all year either, but, like, I think he's going to help them win a lot of football games. It's not Jonathan Taylor. It's. It's the quarterback and the tight end. Like, there's three things that happen there. And I love Jonathan Taylor's great, but these people were telling me you should win awards. No, Jonathan Taylor's always been a really good back, but he's a really good back. Like, the quarterback's legit. They drafted a tight end who's changed the comp, the sort of construct of the offense and how you defend them. And Luana Rumo was a huge upgrade at defensive coordinator. Yeah, I like, if you told me they're in the AFC championship game at this point, I don't know that I would flinch. I think they're legit. I think Denver's legit. I think Kansas City's legit. Like, I think they're the three most legit teams in that conference.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay, that's good. Tell people about wannabet.

[Jason Lockenfora]

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[Tony Kornheiser]

Wow.

[Jason Lockenfora]

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[Michael Wilbon]

But have we scaled up production to the hoodies yet?

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah, yeah. What's happened with hoodies?

[Jason Lockenfora]

What happened? You know, I meant to ask you, dude, so where is that hoodie? Is that hoodie. Is that hoodie Lost in the Wild? The Natural Liberty.

[Tony Kornheiser]

No, no, no. The hoodie went. I was told it'll be an auction. I was told that Matt Williamson, who works on the show wears hoodies all the time. So I went to him and I said, here's a hoodie for you. And he took it. And I later found out he took it just because he didn't want to insult me. And then he put it on ebay. So we'll see. We'll see if the people around the country bid this thing up to a reasonable number and buy it.

[Jason Lockenfora]

We'll see that he. Did he look at it with scorn as you did?

[Cooper Flagg]

No.

[Tony Kornheiser]

No. I mean, no, he kept his head down. You know, he's afraid of me, so.

[Jeff Ma]

Right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I love the kid. I love him. All right, I'll talk to you next week.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Thanks, guys.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Jason Lock and Fora. We will come back with. With Carval and Ma. Yes, we think I'm Tony Kornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show. The Tony Kornheiser Show. The news is out all over town that you've been seen running round. I know that I should leave but.

[Michael Wilbon]

Then.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I just can't go. You win again. Hank Williams with James Carville's walk up music. James last week was 3 and 3, but he's 26, 21 and 1. He's ahead of everybody else who picks games for us and we'll get to his games in a second. But as a proud graduate of lsu, you watched as the governor of your state and I don't, you know, politics in states vary from state to state. But the governor said that the ad, Scott Woodward would not be able to pick a new coach after Brian Kelly was canned and Scott Woodward left after what appeared to be public castration. I mean, he just said, I'm not having anything to do with this. What are your thoughts on the governor, you know, taking over LSU football?

[James Carville]

Well, thank you, Tony. And I'd make this point. When Mike Boss was the Republican governor State, I was totally supportive, as you know, of LSU football the entire time at Bobby Jindal was solely supportive. I plan on burning all of my LSU gear, both of my diplomas, both of my daughter's diplomas. And I believe, and this is my own personal belief, but I've engaged the services of Williamson Connally. I think that the governor libeled our athletic director when he erroneously talked about Jimbo Fish's buyout at Texas A and M. And I believe that we have a case of actual malice which is under current existing libel law in the United States. You would have to prove, and if we can get to discovery, I think that we can prove that.

[Jason Lockenfora]

The damage.

[James Carville]

The reputational damage that has been done to our university is incalculable. Our president left and went to Rutgers, which is the 41st best university in the entire United States, according to U.S. news & World Report. And the board is trying to hire the President McNeese, which I have nothing against, but is ranked the 80th regional university in the South. That's not a trade you want to make, Right?

[Jason Lockenfora]

Right.

[James Carville]

And that is the direction that it seems that our governor is intent on taking our university. And I'm not going to be passive in this struggle at all.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Good.

[James Carville]

Good.

I don't know how. Is there a possible way I could be more direct? No, you will get the video at the burning. But this is unbelievable. And I also think. And maybe there's a board member, too, listening. I'm not sure that the board is exercising its fiduciary duty to the university. But every person at this university who has a degree, who's currently studying there, who's currently teaching there, has suffered incalculable reputational damage that. I'm going to say it now. Let's go on with the pit.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yes. Let's go to the picks right away. Go to the picks.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Okay.

[James Carville]

Rice. What do you got there?

I got Memphis at rice giving 13 and a half.

Okay, well, I take. Take the hook because I got 14.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay. All right, so we're taking rice plus.

[James Carville]

We're taking rice plus 14.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay.

[Jason Lockenfora]

All right.

[James Carville]

The great New Orleanian Arch Manning at the University of Texas of Vanderbilt will be visiting Austin, which I just left. What do you.

[Jason Lockenfora]

What do you got?

[James Carville]

What do you got?

I got Texas giving three and a half to Vandy.

All right, I got two and a half. Let's compromise at three.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Three. Okay, you're going to take Texas?

[James Carville]

I'm going to take Texas, Yes. Great university in New Mexico, Lobos.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay. New Mexico.

[James Carville]

New Mexico. What conference are they in? Sorry, I should know.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Probably the wack.

[James Carville]

The wac. All right, give me one second here.

[Tony Kornheiser]

All right, what do you got?

[James Carville]

I got them at plus four, I think. Unlv. Okay, double check me.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Are you taking New Mexico plus four?

[Jason Lockenfora]

Yes.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay.

[James Carville]

This is controversial because this is. The Texan line has been all over the place. Yeah, this is a hot pick somewhere. But what, do we have it right now? Because when I saw it, when I got it, it was plus two point plus two.

Is this New Mexico at unlv? That's the one we're talking about. I see, I see. Now is UNLV giving four and a half.

Okay, well, take the Four and a half.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You're going to take New Mexico plus four and a half. That's a lot better than two. A lot better than two. Okay, what else?

[Jason Lockenfora]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Carville]

The, the Houston Texan Bronco line. That thing has been that, that's a, that's a game that's had a lot of movement.

Yeah. Right now we see Houston at home giving a point and a half to Denver.

Yeah, I had it. So I, if you get it even.

[Jason Lockenfora]

That'S as best you can do and.

[James Carville]

Make it a double play. But I had, I had him when it was picked.

[Jason Lockenfora]

They were ahead.

[James Carville]

I think the line is. I think it became a really trendy pick but there's a lot of steam behind it.

[Tony Kornheiser]

So you're going to take Houston. Yes. And you want it even? Okay.

[James Carville]

And I want.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Yeah.

[James Carville]

And a two timer.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Okay, that's fine.

[James Carville]

Okay. And now Seattle is in the commanders.

I see that Seattle here in Washington giving two and a half road favorites.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Okay. Take it.

[James Carville]

Take, take, take, take Seattle.

[Tony Kornheiser]

You're taking the road team road.

[James Carville]

And I hate to, I hate to go against Jaden Daniels but you know.

[Jason Lockenfora]

There'S a lot of. There's a lot.

[James Carville]

You know, loyalty is one thing. Money is another thing.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. What else you got?

[James Carville]

Sugar Sweet. So is honey.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Beat your meat and save your money. That's it.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's it.

[James Carville]

That's six picks. That's my, that's my limit.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Thank you. Nuts. Five picks. You got five.

[Michael Wilbon]

The two timer.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Oh, the two timer. Thank you for. Thank you for the honesty on. On the governor of Louisiana. What are we talking.

[James Carville]

This is. We're in the top of the first inning here.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. Okay. Thank you, James.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Win the world series.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Who do you like?

[Jason Lockenfora]

My friend?

[James Carville]

Who I know Mo base. Remember I told me before that he thought. He thought Toronto would win in six. I thought he was crazy, but he may be right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It looks like it now. It does. It looks like it now. Surprised me. I got that one wrong. I will talk next week. Thank you, James. I should say that this week's picks with James Carville and Jeff Ma are brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. Before we get to Jeff Ma, let me just interrupt the show, the flow of the show for a second because James Carville wanted us to know and wanted you to know that he's doing this completely on his own. Whatever legal research he's doing is on his own. He is not involved with Scott Woodward on any level. He. It's not no Scott word as the ad makes his own Deal follows his own guidance. This is James doing this as a graduate of lsu, as you heard him say, Two different degrees, burning them. What are you doing? Burning your diploma? The kids, you know, I don't know.

[Michael Wilbon]

One thing to burn your own.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I. You want to make a lawsuit, fine. But, gosh, you know, I. Booger McFarland, you know, is an LSU guy. There's a lot of people at ESPN who are LSU people, and this can't be. I shouldn't get into what people do in other states, what elected officials do, because Southern states are different than northern states, and eastern states are different than Western states. But I will say, when I saw the governor say that, that was a. Wow. It was stunning. What do you. What are you. What? That was my. My reaction was, what? Yes. Like, you're the governor. What? Yeah. Anyway, this. Jeff with us?

[James Carville]

Yes, Jeff is with us.

[Tony Kornheiser]

He just had Karva. He's burning his LSU diplomas. What would make you burn your MIT diploma?

[Jeff Ma]

Wow. God, I feel like I should be able to come with something witty for this, but.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Well, it's just out of the blue. He's burning his LSU diplomas. Two of them, guys. It makes me sad. Makes me sad. That is.

[Jeff Ma]

I don't know. I don't know if I would burn my diploma.

[James Carville]

Jeff doesn't have to worry about this. He played at Shadow Creek.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's right. Oh, tell us about Shadow Creek, and then we're gonna do picks. What. What happened? How was Shadow Creek in Las Vegas?

[Jeff Ma]

It was amazing. It was amazing. Yeah. I played yesterday as part of an event put on by a agency called Range, and we had five foursomes that went out yesterday around 12:30. The weather was absolutely perfect. You ever played there, Tony?

[Tony Kornheiser]

I have not. I've never played in Las Vegas. Never.

[Jeff Ma]

It's a good one. You drive out there. No one's really allowed to drive out there, so you have to get a ride out from whatever hotel, the MGM hotels that go out there. There's a legendary bartender that's been there forever called Rhonda. She makes the Ronda Rita. You get a Ronda Rita, you go out there and play. And it is. You know, it is an oasis in the middle of the desert with trees and animals and the holes. Every hole is perfect. The wet, you know, again, the conditions are perfect. There's streams and ponds and lakes and things like that. And it's. It's amazing. It's Tom Fazio. Course, you know, you don't see anyone else while you're out there, because literally, we Were the only five foursomes on the course of the time. And it's a very, very special golf experience.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Did you break 90?

[Jeff Ma]

Did I break 90?

[Jason Lockenfora]

Yes.

[Jeff Ma]

We were playing in a best ball.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Oh, okay.

[Jeff Ma]

So I didn't really keep my exact score, but I, you know, I played pretty well. I shot, you know, I probably had about, I would say half of the. Half of the shot. You know, holes were pars and then, oh, great couple were doubles and you know, I played.

[Jason Lockenfora]

All right.

[Tony Kornheiser]

That's great. That's great.

[Michael Wilbon]

For those of us who have not played out there, this. We've seen the chorus through various matches over the last six years with, you know, Phil, Tiger and then the live PJ went last year.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah. So it's, it's a well known course. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, good for you. You were 2 and 3 last week. 22 and 20 overall. Let's. Let's have a hot week. Let's have a hot week. What do you got?

[Jeff Ma]

I got, got a few college games. We're going to go with Virginia minus the five and a half over Cal. Virginia kind of underrated team in the ACC right now going on the road. That line, actually we talked about it on bet the process or I gave it out on that. The Process and it's kind of run up, but hopefully if you can still get it at five and a half, there's some value there.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Five and a half. Virginia is doing very well this year. They're doing very well, so. And Cal is not all that good. They're not. What do you got? What else?

[Jeff Ma]

That's an expert analysis. Baylor -3 and a half over UCF I. You know, again, this is a, this is a Rufus special. Rufus is actually off in Indonesia at a wedding. So we missed him on the process this week, but he called in some he La Carville. He called in some pics for us and this one of them. Baylor minus three and a half.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I have to say that that, that sentence Rufus is in Indonesia at a wedding is not a sentence I ever thought I would hear in my life. I just never thought so. Wow. Okay.

[Jeff Ma]

He's a renaissance man and a world traveler these days.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Wow. He's all around.

[Jeff Ma]

He was in Paris at a wedding and then went to Bali. And so, you know, you can't ever really pin Rufus down.

[Tony Kornheiser]

What else you got?

[Jeff Ma]

I'm going to go with Texas Tech. Go back to that. Well, you know, they added a tough one against Orlando State, but bounce back. They're minus seven over Kansas State. They tend to win games by margin when they're. When they're in this situation. So I think they can cover this game and comfortably.

[Tony Kornheiser]

All right. They were good. They were a top five team at the beginning of the year.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jeff Ma]

They found one hiccup and they're still in relatively good position to make the College Football Playoff. Okay, there's, you know, the Big 12 will have some pretty interesting showdowns this week with Utah also playing Cincinnati.

[Tony Kornheiser]

What else you got?

[Jeff Ma]

I'm going to do two in the NFL. I'm going to take the Colts minus a three over Pittsburgh last week. Obviously, Pittsburgh had a tough one against Green Bay, so their defense is not very good. And it's interesting that the Colts, you know, continue to. The best team in the NFL in terms of actual performance this year and still are a bit underrated in terms of the line, but they are, you know, this is another. As we were saying, these road favorites. Colts minus the three over Pittsburgh.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I can't speak to Indianapolis, but I've seen Pittsburgh two or three times. They're not good. They don't pass the eye test. They don't. They're just. They don't look that good. They don't. Even though the record is okay. All right, what. What else you got?

[Jeff Ma]

Got one more and then, yeah, I'm gonna take the Seahawks minus the three over your commies.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Yeah.

[Jeff Ma]

Seahawks have a top, top, top defense, maybe the best in the league. On Beth, the process this week, we talked about how there's maybe some value in the futures markets on them meeting like they're kind of a dark horse to maybe go to the super bowl from the nfc. It's interesting in this Darnold situation, you know, if you take away those last two games of last year, he was great. The last year and a half, he's been. He's been great. And so again, you have a great defense and Darnold performing as a top quarterback and a, you know, great wide receiver in jsm. And I like Seahawks minus the three.

[Jason Lockenfora]

One.

[James Carville]

We can actually give it to you. Two and a half.

[Jason Lockenfora]

Two and a half.

[Jeff Ma]

So it's seeming like, I guess Jaden's gonna play if that line keeps going down.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I guess I will say this, that, you know, Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones will run out of New York. How's that look now? How's that look now for those two teams? It's terrible. Thank you, Jeff. We will talk to you next week. Congratulations on Shadow Creek. That must have been great fun. That must have been great.

[Jason Lockenfora]

A lot of fun.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Jeff. Mob boys and girls in this week's picks with Jeff James Carville and Jeff Mobb. And brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every mom. We will come back with email and jingle. I'm Tony Kornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show.

[Jeff Ma]

Here comes Tony. Here comes Tony. Here comes Tony's mailbag. Got your emails fax. I sent your notes. Here comes Tony. Here comes Tony. Here comes Mr. Tony Smith.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Gonna read some for all of you. Fool. That is the great Annie Cress. And here is the rest of the story. Hello Mr. Dr. Tony Loyal Little for over 25 years here. A couple of years ago I submitted a mailbag jingle created by Annie Kress. Annie was over the moon when you added her jingle to your rotation, so thank you for that. The rest of the story is that Annie and I are now engaged and on September 16th of this year we welcomed our son Timo, a masculine child, to our family. I've attached photos of us for those watching on News Channel 8 and your wedding invitation is in the mail. Don't worry, the chances of you actually receiving that invite are as good as the chances that you'll hop a flight to Austria for our nuptials. Thank you for the decades of laughs and insights. Listen up. And the Chuck and Roxy spin off. All of which entertains our growing family of littles Best. Claudius, Claudius West, Annie and Timo. Isn't that sweet?

[James Carville]

That's fantastic. Congratulations to one and all.

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's just wonderful. You want to do the Bethesda Bagel ad, please?

[James Carville]

Yes. Bethesda Bagels, we love them. You will as well. Just go to Bethesda Bagels.com for the location in the DC area nearest you. Then pop on in and you'll be thrilled.

[Tony Kornheiser]

And just let me say before we get to the mailbag, another fellow told me he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name Frankenstein. The late great Sam Cook. Another Saturday night. Yes, thanks to our guest today Jason Lock and Ford, James Carville. Jeff Ma, thanks as well to today's sponsors. Remember you can listen to us on Apple podcasts, Spotify and ought to see if get show through Apple. Please leave us a review from Mark Hughes in Ashton, Maryland. Dear Farmer Tony so Michael has decided to spread pumpkin seeds in the front lawn and has no idea what to expect. Has he forgotten the Cornheiser family history of front lawn harvest? If history is our guide, the likely outcome is a very a couple of very small rock like pumpkins that are dark brown and will sadly occupy a spot on the kitchen table. Please tell Greg Fitzpatrick to eat it. From Malcolm Wilson in Wheaton, Maryland to the squirrel, this is about saving pumpkins. To save them from the squirrels, sprinkle the cutout sections with cayenne pepper and sprinkle some around the base of the pumpkin. Works wonders.

[Michael Wilbon]

Yeah, that's great.

[Tony Kornheiser]

I've heard that from Steve the Sickafan. I tried to preview the Hallmark Channel's Halloween goodies, but we shocked to see nothing coming up of a nefarious nature. Unless you make a partial exception for Friday night's Mistletoe Murders. Death of a Humbug when the murder of the town Scrooge leads Emily to a Christmas Carol themed scavenger hunt. Sounds thrilling, but if you can stay up with your charming wife until 10pm, you'll hit the jackpot with Mystery on Mistletoe Lane, where Heidi and her kids discover a Christmas mystery in their historic home with the help of local handyman and historian David. I'll bet you anything that David is single and loves children. Happy Pumpkins from Tom Kenton. Hello Captain. I heard you discussing Halloween plans including only giving out candy you don't like. Consider doing what the widow lady down the street did when I was young. Put a large empty bowl out on the stoop with a note that says please take one and leave the rest brothers. Then turn out the lights and hunker down in the basement with your favorite candy. Hopefully your one TV is in the basement since there's a baseball game to watch. Lee in Vienna, Virginia for consideration 20 plus years ago little League All Star game kid pitches all six, a bunch of K's, shutout win, 125 pitches. Post game, all the parents raving about Spencer's amazing performance. My firstborn a masculine child and the catcher says dad, did anyone notice I threw all 125 back? Greatest performance Wade Smith, Red Lion, Pennsylvania. My senior year in high school, back in 1981, I was a starting quarterback. In the third game of the season, everything that could go wrong did. My first three passes were intercepted and the first one was returned for a touchdown. I was also sacked and fumbled and that fumble was taken all the way back for another score. To make things worse, one of our defensive backs got injured, so the coaches sent me in to replace him. On the very first play, the receiver I was covering caught a touchdown pass. All of that happened just in the first half.

[Michael Wilbon]

Wow, you're involved in a lot of scoring.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Elise from Chris Band Sells Forest Hill, Maryland for most of last week, I haven't been able to get the thought of Tim Kirchen doing a complicated handshake with Pitbull. Like so many of Tim's stories, it is a delightfully weird juxtaposition. I desperately wish there was video. I tried to get AI to generate an image of the moment, but it didn't work out. While Pitbull was fine, it kept making Tim look like Archie Bunker for some reason. So I dropped that idea and started listening to his podcast instead. For any Littles who are baseball fans, it's an absolute must listen. The episodes are like extended versions of his appearances here, and he actually has a lot in common with you as a host. Well, you know the most ridiculous facts about rock and roll and where people are born. Tim knows the most obscure things about baseball I've ever heard, and I've grown up in the game as ever. Thank you, dear Toby, for making our lives a little richer through this stinking show. Norwegian Soft Kitten While we've known for a while that you're unburdened by memory and don't remember when you played bass for us during a winter tour of 1991 and 92, we had no idea Tim Kirchheim was also unburdened by memory and failed to recall a fourth concert he's been been to in his life as he attended our concert at Johns Hopkins University in November of 91. You Tony had invited Tim to the show and Tim had worked his way to the front of the crowd that night and had been bopping about at the foot of the stage for three or four songs when we broke into our country punk song Think I'll Just Get Drunk and Drink, which it turns out is Tim's favorite song of ours. Tim about lost his mind when the song began and our guitarist Glenn noticed this. Glen then moved to the edge of the stage and much like Bruce Springsteen did with Courtney Cox in the Dancing in the Dark video, Glenn reached out a hand to Tim. Tim hesitated for a moment, then Tim took Glenn's hand and Glenn pulled him onto the stage. Tim danced like a crazy Mad Hatter to the song, blushing like a 17 year old debutante the entire time was adorable. This was just not. This was not just one of the highlights of the tour, it's one of the highlights of our lives. Glenn and Allen Norwegian Soft Kid Bennett Wise, sports anchor in South Bend, Indiana I'd recommend you remember the name Michael Brennan. He's a London county kid who's been engraved in my memory since October 2016 when I was a senior in high school while I reside in Indiana and went to college in Miami of Ohio. I grew up in Warrenton, Virginia. My senior year I started playing golf tournaments outside of the high school season. My second ever tournament was the College Prep Tours Bull Run Championship at Bull Run Golf Club in Haymarket. I've played that. I was paired with a freshman who I thought came in with Wilbonian pomposity and a little too much swagger around 40 degrees outside with 30 mile an hour winds by the end of the day. This kid shot three over in those conditions and was leading the tournament. After he tapped in on 18 he looked upset because she shot 75. I thought to myself what you upset? I just shot 100. You shot three over in hellacious wind and cold. Stupid freshman. Next day he shot 400, won the tournament by two shots over seniors who would later attend Longwood. William and Mary and current golf influence Ben Crooper Michael Brennan went on to play at Wake Forest. He is and always has been legit. Okay, wow. Michael Granberry so long one right. It's always. But it's always good.

[James Carville]

Always good.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Unless I miss that. The national press has not yet covered the fact that civil war has broken out in Dallas. The combatants in this case are the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Stars. Yes, the local NBA entry going after the local NHL entry. In terms of public opinion, I have to think the Stars are way ahead on this one since trading Luka Doncic to the dreaded trades slightly, slightly above leprosy. In terms of public opinion earlier this week, the Mavericks sued the Stars over issues surrounding their shared use of American Airlines Center. Then the Stars countersued and so the feud is on. But in my case, the Stars next move hit a little too close to home. The Stars say their preferred new arena choice is suburban Plano. Specifically the Shops at Willow Bend, a so called luxury mall less than a mile from my front door. My neighbors are not exactly thrilled with this plan. All the guys in the neighborhood are now worried about Ed. No, no, not erectile dysfunction, but rather eminent domain. Will our own lovely homes be eclipsed by the need for hockey parking? We hope not. My saddest experience with eminent domain happened when I and the woman to whom I related by marriage traveled to Hawthorne, California, the hometown of one of our favorite bands, the Beach Boys. One of our favorite songs by the late great Brian Wilson is in My Room inspired Within the home that gave way to a wrecking ball in the mid-80s. Because Greater LA just had to have yet another freeway. Yes, eminent domain even managed to figure in the illustrious history of the Beach Boys. Of course, the Mavericks and Stars are stuck with each other until 2031, the expiration date for their leases at the AAC. And by then, heck, Cooper Flagg will be an end. An elderly 25 and he's attached a picture of his lovely wife Nancy standing next to the Beach Boys monument in Hawthorne, California. That's where they're all from. Just lovely. It's a lovely note, as we always get from him. From Christopher Giannini I wanted to share a correction from a previous email that was read on Wednesday, October 29th. While Scott Woodward is the athletic director who hired both Brian Kelly and Jimbo Fisher, he's not the athletic director who gave Jimbo his massive extension that led to his buyout that was offered and signed by then A&M and now Ohio State Athletic Director Ross Bjork. Also, Kelly's buyout does have the language in it that it requires duty to mitigate. It was reported originally that it did not, but later corrected that it did have that language. It was correct that Jimbo's did not have duty to mitigate, which is why he never had to attempt to get another job. Once again, that was a contract given to him by Ross Bjork, not Scott Woodward. From Jay Newman in Rancho Palos Verdes, California As a senior cyclist who is grateful to be able to still get out on the bike, I reserve that time to tune in to the podcast on my earbuds. As a member of Tony's generation, a kid who grew up on Long Island West Hempstead, my prime years as an NFL and New York Giants fan fortunately coincided with the era of Summer all in Madden on CBS and Fox. I want to thank Tony his colleagues for having Rich Podolski on the POD as a guest and introduce his book Madden and Summer All. Just finished reading it. Highly recommend it to anyone who's part of that generation. If not for this show, I might have missed the opportunity to read it. Fantastic. Thanks all to the pot. Also to the POD for keeping me company on my bike rides. I ride during the day exclusively so I don't wear White Joe in Orlando. I took the liberty of googling this for you. It turns out the K in James KPOKE stands for Cadillin Gabriel. Sorry you were close. Dean Jansen in York New Newcastle in Australia. Who wants to tell Kurt Whiteman to eat it? The NBA may be its early stages of horrendous gambling scandal and I know Dave Roberts has won two World Series and may potentially win a third, but at what point do questions start being asked every time he puts in Blake Trinen into a game? All the scouting the Dodgers need to do was listen to this high quality podcast the last few years. Chris Ely Dayton, Ohio this email goes in the special pile. Yeah, we do have a special from Jason in Burke, Virginia. Now that we know what kind of wine Tony Beeson should pair with a birthday dinner? Wagyu Steak what kind of potato chip should he pair with the wine from Brandon Borzelli?

[James Carville]

Tony Beeson sent me a text. This is them at the table having the dinner.

[Tony Kornheiser]

Fantastic.

[James Carville]

Isn't that great?

[Tony Kornheiser]

It's just fantastic. It's a picture Brandon Borzelli for those keeping score at home. James Carver was 62 and 1 last week. 6 games picked 2 bleeps post interview 1 self imposed bleep during his kick him in the other knee champ and from Don Ames in Kingston in Ontario, Canada, Alex Cloninger emailed about his potential relation to Tony Cloninger. In the email Alex put a call out for any genealogist to write in. So here I am and here is my genealogist update. Jeannie McManus used to appear regularly on Tony's radio show, went to a girls Catholic school and was a legendary staff for the Washington Post. That's it. That's your genealogy update. If you're out on your bike tonight, everyone do wear white. Dr. Frankenstein, are you alright? My name is Frankenstein.

[Cooper Flagg]

Cooper Flag will be the mvp the Jays will win the series and probably repeat. The Colts will win the Super bowl maybe three straight. Carlos Alcaraz win 35 majors it's fate.

[Dan Byrne]

Slow down Sparky easy Winyama Remember when NC State played five Slama Jama Slow down Sparky easy Rookie, you ain't Jack the Ripper just cause you played hooky.

[Cooper Flagg]

Tom Brady couldn't hold Derek Mays jock for the hall of Fame Kelly D. De La Cruz is aloft the Maple Leafs will definitely win the Stanley Cup Hubert Davis is as good as Adolph.

[Dan Byrne]

Rupp hold on Sparky easy neophyte off of my lawn don't believe the height the sunshine is fleeting Put on your windshield wipers Slow down Sparky Time to change your diaper version.