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speaker-0: Welcome back to 95 connected a Baltimore, Maryland sports podcast. It's Pat and Josh back with you. A brief delay because Josh was traveling to the glorious, beautiful state of New Jersey. Yeah. Don't want to go back. Yeah. I'm sure it was a great, a great time. Yeah. ⁓ okay. So just a few things. Well, the Ravens schedule came out called four or five days ago. And so we're going to kind of go over that some thoughts on it. And then we're going to start a new end of show topic bucket type thing, things that I've wrote down, written down in my little book that probably don't need a full segment, but they need to be said. So that's what we have. And we need to talk about Florida. I'll leave that where that is. So Josh. Yes. Raven schedule comes out. Initial thoughts. Can I just say this whole schedule drop thing is the dumbest thing. The fact that the NFL is able to have a whole day where everybody's at the edge of their seat. ⁓ my God. Wait till 730. The schedule is going to drop. Here we go. Here comes our fun videos. We're about two of them are good. All the other ones are just garbage. Yeah. Who was the first team to do that? I know the Chargers have done it. the best, but was it the Titans when they did like walking around Nashville where they had people like, ⁓ what is this logo? It's the Ravens logo. ⁓ is that the yeah. think birds. Yeah. I thought it, think that was the start of it. My, my guess is I agree with you. I it's, it's, it's that exact meme that I sent recently on something else where it's people, the meme The meme for those who want to visualize it is a bunch of people at a party putting pineapples on their heads and we're all having a great time putting pineapples on their heads. And here comes the brand and the brand puts a pineapple on his head. And then all of these other brands come in and they start putting the pineapples on their head and everybody leaves. They've, they've sucked the fun out of it. So I saw a tweet from somebody saying this whole schedule drop could just be an email. Yeah. Which I agree. and then the lions. I get, I get what they're going for. You know, Dan Campbell's all business this year because they missed the playoffs, but they see it was a video of him printing out the email with the schedule and pinning it up. And that was their schedule reveal. It was like, yeah, that's awesome. At the same time, I'm like, okay, all right. I get it. Yeah. So, but, then people complained, people were legitimately complaining that the Ravens schedule release was not good enough. and how that's a microcosm for the season. It's like, okay, all right. This has, this has jumped the shark. yeah, I agree with you. That's insane. It's, it's Okay. Well, looking at the schedule. Here's my other gripe about this whole thing. It is also stupid how everybody, the schedule drops. And the first thing that comes out is, past strength of schedule, let's compare it to last year. It's like, yeah, because you know, every team in the NFL just sat on their hands and they're just waiting for the season to start and hopefully everybody improves and stays healthy. It's dumb. Okay. All right. I'm going to say, okay. But having said that, it is cool that they're going to South Paulo ⁓ early so that when Lamar eats, ⁓ Street food. Let's go with it. Whatever. He will find street meat and he will eat it and he will have the shits. He will skip this Tennessee game and probably the Atlanta game and it'll be back for Cleveland. And I think that time is perfectly. So my guess is the NFL did that on purpose. They knew they knew that was going to happen. If they were smart, they, they, ⁓ I was going to say something. I'm I'll, I'll text it to you. That's about the same. ⁓ Just keep them in the hotel. Who do you think is gonna get like, ⁓ my God, I can't believe that player got out and got in trouble on the Ravens. ⁓ man. Well, ⁓ here's what I'll say is don't let Malachi Starks get in a car. ⁓ We don't need that. That Georgia energy, especially overseas, having like remember that Ryan Lochte situation when the Olympics were there where he and his buddies were drunk at a gas station and caused a bunch of hoopla. We don't need that. Unrelated. Have you seen a picture of him recently? Yes. And he took, ⁓ he's getting paid like $30,000 to be a swimming coach somewhere at like a small school. I don't know. I, as soon as that, all that started coming out about him, it was like, okay, he's okay. Anyway. ⁓ all right. My initial thoughts on this were, ⁓ I think it's bullshit that the Ravens are going back to Buffalo again. Yep. Bring them here just once. You know, you got to win the games. Also tickets. I'm looking at ESPN. All the tickets are relatively cheap. The cheapest ticket on here is $62, which is the Cleveland home game. Buffalo at Buffalo tickets as low as $360. That's the lowest ticket. Now I know, Oh, brand new stadium and it's a big robbery. But that's it's it's May. It's Memorial Day. Yeah. But here's my, I'm just going to run it down real quick. They could easily be four. No, they could just as easily based on last year be one in three. Uh, because I don't know what we're going to get from the Colts. Is Daniel Jones going to play? that, uh, he, I mean he tours Achilles, right? Yeah. Uh, I don't think he'd come back from Achilles quickly. Well, unless you're Patrick Mahomes, I know it wasn't an Achilles, but. didn't say anything else. different. So, I mean, who knows what the call is. That's a should win game. New Orleans is a should win game at home. I like their quarterback a lot. I mean, they're always on over the cap, which is bananas. I don't know where they're spending all this money ending up over the cap. But yeah, it should be a win. is. Who's the Saints quarterback? It's the the shall. show show guy. Hmm. I don't know. He didn't win the starting job over frickin Spencer rattler for half the year. So I don't know. We'll see. Yeah. Then you've got the South Palo game
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against Dallas. It's a toss up to me. Yeah. Yeah. Toss up, whatever. Tennessee. They should win that game, but I don't know what it is about the Titans. Like I know it was back when variable was the coach and they were a much better team and they had Derek Henry, but that's always been a team that has been a thorn in the side. Yeah. Tennessee has always been a thorn in the side for the state of Maryland. Who could forget middle Tennessee? Several years ago, university Maryland football, middle Tennessee state two wins in a row. home and home you lose them both. guess is that how Texas felt when little Maryland came in and beat them? Yeah. Um, is Atlanta to a two was the starter, right? Is he, I don't think that's confirmed yet, I'm well, would assume, but I guess was Penex back. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know anything about these teams, which is because it's may, you know, it's we know, we know one thing or two things about the Atlanta. have very good. wide receiver court and ⁓ probably the best running back since LT from overall running back. He can run, he can catch, which is bad because our linebackers are fat as shit. Well, the hope, the hope would be that this defensive line can get to the quarterback this time so that they are then forced to jump off to Bijan or Bijan, whatever. And our fat linebackers will be able to catch up. here's okay. Here's here's the thing. I get it. Ro Kwon is That is shit. Zach Gore is not the defensive coordinator anymore. Jesse Minter is going to be calling the defensive plays. I like I'm putting stock in that. That's a good thing. Trey Hendrickson is here. Like I don't want to think like that currently. But with how sports have been going recently. I understand why we continue to think like this because can't do anything. Hey, for any of the ad listeners, we don't really talk about hockey because whatever, but the Carolina Hurricanes got the shit kicked out of them last night. I can't have anything good. Even the team that is supposed to be good because shit kicked out of anyway. Okay. Moving on. ⁓ Cleveland is Sanders going to start. I mean, I guess it sounds like it. I, I don't think Cleveland should win a game. next year, at least because of the offense, if they're going to win a game, it's going to be, you know, a stinker against the Steelers where miles Garrett breaks air Rodgers in half and they have a couple defensive touchdowns other than that. All right. Cincinnati always a toss up. So both, I think you just split the natty games. know they Ravens kind of own them, but I always think about that. Then you got Buffalo. talked about here's Jacksonville. I have seen a lot of talk amongst the Ravens fans that Jacksonville is a trap game. It is every year. It shouldn't be. You can't call it a trap game. If the Jaguars were the playoff team between the two last year, that's not a trap game. Okay. They could lose. get historically. And here's the thing. It's not really, if anything, if I think about it just
using my memory, if anything, it's a trap game for the Jags because the Jags beat the Ravens all the time. I remember the 2011 season when the Jaguars were horrible and they, and they beat the Ravens. remember the date, the game that Joe Flacco tour is ACL. That was a Jags game lost that game. I think they lost the most recent game, right? the most recent two. The most recent one, the that drove me nuts, because I swear there was like some kind of like penalty or something that that was not called that it should have been called. Um, I remember, I, Oh, that, that was the, um, that was the one where Flacker towards ACL, right? It was a, what was that? A false start that was, they didn't get set. Yeah. Yeah. That was that game. So that was what? 20, 15, 16. We ended up with Jimmy Claussen. I'm looking at the history. is, it is hilariously a toss up. 2023, they won 23 to seven. Okay. 2022, that's when we're talking about where they lost. It was 27 to 28. 2020. All right. Ravens won 40 to 14 2017. Oh my god. That was that was London. That was London. was there. Oh my god. I completely put that was London. Seven to 44. And then that was horrible. Thank God we were drinking. I forgot. Oh yeah. That game. It just never. And it was just like you blink and oh look. Jacksonville scored again. 2023. Oh boy. Okay. Yeah. It's, been back and forth, back and forth, except yeah. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. 20. So 2015 is when we're talking about. Yeah. That's where it flack of tours ACL. And then there was the, um, they didn't get set. Should have been a penalty. That type of thing. Anyway, my whole point is they were a playoff team. It's not a trap game. It's a potential loss. I wouldn't call it a trap game. Like they're going to go in knowing that that's a team they got to play. will say Jacksonville is like the goofiest team. don't know. they're, I hate that I'm doing this, but like looked at their drafts. was like, you guys could have drafted, you had a lot of opportunity to pick guys and they dropped to like a tight end or in like the first round or something like that. Something weird. Yeah. Well, and um, Trevor Lawrence cut his hair. Allegedly. Allegedly. ⁓ there are some people saying he has a wig on but Twitter is dumb. I can't believe I'm back on that stupid platform. All right, the Chargers. That's a prime time game. That's Monday night, Monday night. Jesse Minter going back or they're, they're coming here. Mitchell revenge game too. Mitchell revenge game. I know what that means, but you should explain to the listeners what that means. ⁓ I obviously know, but you should explain. Yeah. So, ⁓ for those who do not know, ⁓ there was a very, very good electric running back. name is Keaton Mitchell. ⁓ Keaton Mitchell. Yeah. knew that. back. John Harbaugh decided to, ⁓ bench him for reasons. I would love to know those reasons. I think you'd love to know those reasons. He's 24 years old. probably the fastest running back in the game and the Ravens released them. Now, I heard rumors. I don't know what saying. That there was a Reddit leak earlier this year that had all the issues that the Ravens were having. The rumor was that it was Keaton's girlfriend, but I've also heard it was Zay Flowers' girlfriend. Yeah. I don't know it's true or not, but it just seems very odd that they would let him go. Well, I think... Is Ali still on the team? They like him or at least Harbaugh did and Munkin did. ⁓ I guess they see something or he's got some type of contract. They're like, all right, that's our guy. And then they've got Justice Hill, who I saw somewhere. He's like the longest tenured running back on a single team in league right now. Something like that. One of the longest necks in the NFL. Yeah. Well, hopefully he doesn't drop any more balls. All right. And then they go to Carolina. I will be in a trap. That's a trap game. Of course it is. Yep. Yep. I will be there. Houston. Well, hang on. All Clay is Campbell. How tall is he? 66. Call away. No, he's got to be talking about. He six eight. He is six eight. OK, and how tall is Carolina's quarterback? Five nine. ⁓ my God. I cannot wait. I need him to stand next to him so bad. ⁓ my God. How tall is Bryce Young? I think Bryce Young's, well, he's under six feet by a good chunk, right? Allegedly he's five 10, but it's like, um, you know, that's what this helmet includes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. can't. Yeah. That, that is a trap game. That's a real trap game. And I know that Carolina went to the playoffs. Oh, you just said Jack Spill. No, that was not the same. That division was horrible. But, so that's, you know, Houston, you got that defense, that defense gotta be ready for that. Uh, Hopefully because here's the elephant in the room, right? The elephant in the room is what, what is the offensive line going to look like? They obviously made the improvements on the defensive line. What is the offensive line going to look like? We talked about Vega in our last episode, you know, he's a big body. It's an upgrade over fillet. Like in our, in our heads, we don't actually know yet, but we think he is because it's hard to be worse than that. ⁓ Center is a question. Who's what's his what's the guy's name? Who's the center? Who's the center? That's it. Well right now it's the it's some dude from that they signed from like Indianapolis. Right. I don't know if it was like a a starter. I don't think he was a starter at all. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a question. You got Ryan Stanley on the left like he'll probably miss half the season like he always does. So that's always going to be the question and it's a team like Houston where you're going to find out hopefully by November 29th. We'll already know and we can you know. prepare ourselves for that type of game. But that'll be a tough one. Then they got a late season by which I like. late Houston. Yep. Yep. The bucks, they should beat the bucks, bucks at home. I love man. I like Evans has gone. They don't,
they don't got their jump ball guy. Um, has Baker ever, he's won one time in both. That was 2019 week two. I think that was the game where he stood on the sideline talking to. Was it Jim Schwartz? No, Jim Schwartz was not the whoever he was talking to is like a little trick play and he ran for. Oh, no, that was Johnny Manziel. was Johnny Manziel. That was a Bryant Brian Kyle Shanahan. OK. Yeah. Right. Yeah, that sounds that sounds right. If it's not right, who cares? And then you've got Pittsburgh at home. OK, here's one thing I don't like. I don't like Pittsburgh twice in four weeks. Why? Can we get an early season one? I liked the week one against Pittsburgh. What happened to that? Like, yeah, well, come on. It's because the NFL wants to get as many readings as possible. So I actually, appreciate having the last three games, the divisional last three. It is idiotic to have, you know, at Pittsburgh and then like four weeks later at Pittsburgh and like, what, are we doing? Yeah. Spread it out. agree. Give us against Pittsburgh or against Carolina that week. Yeah. So then you finish off with the division. much else to say about that. Who knows what the Bengals are going to be like. They haven't made the playoffs in three years. They got shut out by a horrible Ravens team or horrible Ravens defense. But I mean, it's going to be heard. Yep. So I, looking at the schedule, I think it's a relatively favorable schedule. You gotta stay healthy. You gotta stay healthy and you gotta protect Lamar and don't, don't do what you did last year and just, cause from week seven on, they were an, ⁓ decent team because they started one in five and were a missed kick from going to the playoffs, you know, and obviously the division was a little bit weak, but very weak but that's because i mean you got derrick henry you got lamar can we can we can we okay you have derrick henry and lamar and i have to get onto a super bowl yet okay okay so and this this goes back to my other thing okay let's just say in hypothetical world the the ravens are 13 and five what's that That's too many games. That's 13 and 4. Okay. They're looking into 18, not 18 yet. All right. So they're 13 and 4. They're not even there yet. Whatever the trade deadline is. Okay. Go out and make some real trades this year. Okay. We're definitely going to need a cornerback because Marlon Humphrey will more than likely get hurt or is too slow as shit. Go out and find somebody. Okay. Stop with this like, oh, but we also have to play for next year. No, no, no tired of it here. Stop it. Okay. Tired of it. 20, 23 Ravens, 20, 22 Ravens. Like, yep. There's no tomorrow. Yep. Do it. It's time to win a Superbowl. Yeah. Enough. Enough. Yeah. I'm just, I'm tired of the twinkle toes. Okay. Yeah. So I think based on the schedule, I think 13 and four is on my high end. Yeah. You're going to drop games. See NFL. I think my love I would they finish last year nine and eight right? Yeah, right. Yeah, game back and Steelers some like that. I think 10 and 7 is what I hope would be the worst and that's like worst case scenario if they they're too talented to be 500 or or lower and I know I said the same thing about the freaking Orioles and they're absolutely terrible but this is different this is different seven eight nine ten eleven all right I can see eleven Cleveland intrigues me just because of how bonkers their team is, but they also have still one of the best defenses in the league. And we all know Joey Bosa is going to go there and between him and Miles Garrett will be a fun dynamic until, you know, Joey Bosa gets hurt because he always does that. Joey Bosa, where's Joey Bosa? I think he's released. I think he's a free agent. One of the Bosa brothers is a free agent. I don't assume it's Joey because he's the older one, right? he was with Buffalo. Is Nick Bosa still in the Niners? I think he's on the Lions. No, he's still in the Niners. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, because so much I know them because they don't do shit. They get hurt all the time. Yes. So hopefully for that last game, that last game is the only game against Pittsburgh is the only game that's not quote unquote scheduled. Hopefully we're not in a position where that game gets flexed to Sunday night because that means there's a problem. Something's wrong, right? Let's lock that division up by Cleveland. Lock it up by Cleveland. Sit Lamar, let Tyler Huntley do it again. Lock it up by Cleveland. It could also be flexed if, cause what was it, two or three years ago when the Ravens eliminated the Steelers, was it the Steelers? Yeah, I think it was the Steelers. Like it meant nothing for the Ravens, but it meant everything for the Steelers. Hmm. Maybe not. I don't know. Regardless, they need to lock the division up by your guardless by by Cleveland rest people going in the playoffs. Get a home game. Don't go to Buffalo again. Get a home game. I can do without the buy. can do without the buy. In my experience in recent years, the buy is bad. 2019 Ravens got a buy, right? 2023 Ravens got a buy and then, but then they got gifted Houston, right? And then, and then Kansas city, ⁓ the Orioles got buys and then they didn't win any playoff games. ⁓ the freaking hurricanes sat out for 12 days and they got the shit kicked out of them. I'm still salty about that. ⁓ counterpoints. We don't have Harbaugh anymore. I know. I know. That's true. But it's a rookie head coach. You know, ⁓ whatever Harbaugh did in the playoffs to the opposite and you'll win. Very easy. That's true. Yeah. That's a good point. All right. We can run the ball in the. Okay. Before we all get mad and I start yelling again, I think, I think we beat that to death, right? Right. Okay. So the Ravens, should win their division. They should win minimum 11 games, but who the hell knows because we can't have anything fun. ⁓ can't be happy. Okay. I'm going to jump into the topic we were going to cover before. And this for those listening a couple of weeks
ago, the rare Ravens, the Orioles went to Miami, Miami, right? Did they win that series? I they won that. That was the last series they won, right? Yeah. Yeah. Or did they the Yankees after that? Regardless? they were. Well, they beat they won a series against the Yankees. They got swept and then they won a series. But I was watching the Marlins game and I had a number of observations. I'm going to get the easy one out of the way, which is their attendance. And it's never, never It's like their high end is 10,000. Right. And you know, as a Wario's fans, our attendance is terrible, but who cares? Not the point. But also we're not in Dome, we're not in Florida. Cold and miserable because it is right now. It's 55 and rainy. The next thing I'm going to say is, so anyway, Mario's attendance, that point will come back around in my little... thing here. Marlins man is a fraud. I am tired of that guy. He was at an Orioles game recently and it was not the one in Miami. Did you know that? So for those who don't know what Marlins man is like 10 or 15 years ago, Marlins man is a guy who showed up behind home plate in world in a world series. decked out in orange Marlins gear and he was at every game and everybody's like, who's that guy in the Marlins stuff? That's, that's awesome. We love that guy. He's been doing that same bit. I want to say it was like 2012 or 13. He started that and he just shows up randomly. And yet I've never seen him at a Marlins game. ⁓ I've seen him at a Marlins game, but it was a, you know, like you said, it was a while ago. Yeah. I'm sick of him. The bit it's over. It's over. Right. You're not going to get the the who was who was that guy rainbow man or whatever who held up the john 3 16 in the 80s whatever he's not rainbow man i think he's trying to be rainbow man but he doesn't have anything to say that guy at least had a bible verse this guy is just some i was gonna say something else i'll text that to you later he's just there and i don't understand like he's a i don't like him he's a fraud he's got so much money apparently the rumor is that he's a lawyer That's the rumor. think I don't think that's a rumor. I think that's confirmed. He owns a firm. He owns a firm that's in like New York or something or probably Miami or whatever. So he's stupid rich. And he probably and then all his buddies and pals probably doing lines of cocaine. You should do that every single time. He's like, yeah, I have a wife or kids. I'll just go to random games and be stupid famous. and he's getting interviewed on like Barstool sports and all that. It's just, yeah, I'm over it. Just can we get a new, new, I, this tarps off thing that's happening right now. It looks fun. You know what I'm talking about? I do, but you should, you should probably explain it to the rest of the group. So the tarps off thing, I think it most, it, started to blow up after the Cardinals did it. but there is a section in the stadium where everybody gathers and takes off their
shirts and spins it. Now, of course, there's all the discourse of, can't women go there? It's like, who said they can't? you know, so it's just, and it's starting to take off the Rays had it during the Orioles series. It's going over. I don't remember where it originated. It was a college game. yeah, Jeff Epstein, which was a high school game, but it was. the finance here. Yeah. So I don't know. I, maybe this is just me being crotchety, but I'm just tired of him. I just put on a normal short or shirt or just do it at Marlins games only. don't need to see you there. And he never cheers. Obviously he's not necessarily a fan of all these other places he's going to, but you're sitting behind home plate. I get it. You're rich, but you know, act like you want to be there. Don't just be like, well, I saw myself on TV again. Anyway. Okay. How would you give your money away to, you know, the needy? Okay. Yeah. All right. right. Going, going back to my anti-Marlin's rant, the stadium itself, I've heard it's cool, but yeah. Have you been there? No, but it just, I don't think it looks cool. Well, I know I've heard like when you're there, obviously it doesn't look cool. think the green or the blue or whatever, it just, it looks soulless is how I wrote down. here. looks like a soulless stadium, apparently the amenities there and it's cause it's relative. Actually, it's not that new anymore. It's probably 10, 15 years old. Yeah. Whenever they got sold, they built. But my biggest complaint about it is when they took out that thing in center field, the statue, a home run celebration thing. Like it's a soulless stadium. Now it's just a building with a baseball field in the middle. They also removed the The fish tank behind home plate. Derek Jeter, you idiot. Was this all Derek Jeter's fault? Did he do that? Yes. I don't think that makes me. But that thing in center field, it was cool. It was fun. The dolphins went around when they hit a home run and like, you know, Stanton hit it in the air. I think one time like that was cool. And now it's gone. So what this leads me to is that ⁓ Florida's sports landscape needs to be reduced by at least 70%. Okay. So not only did Derek Jeter get rid of the goddamn fish tank, he traded Kristen Yelich, Stanton, Ozuna, Realmuto, all gone. Like this guy had a plethora of all-star talent and he's like, I'm the greatest shortstop of all time. I'm a fucking slap hitter. Hey, you actually do defense, I'm statistically the worst defender in baseball, but of all time, but nope, not me. I know better than everyone else. Hey, fuck the fish. Let's do it at that too. God damn, I hate Derek Jeter so much. And it's all because of what he did in my head. Maybe our title of this will be this is Derek Jeter's fault. ⁓ we'll see. But so my reduction of Florida sports. Okay. Do rid of it. Yep. I'm going to go not get rid, reduce. I wrote down the lists. of all the teams in Florida. It extends to MLS, right? Okay. The dolphins, they can stay. They're
fine. Yeah. Right. I think they actually did a really good job with their stadium upgrades. It's so hard to realize that that is dolphin stadium. used to play baseball there. It looks like a completely different stadium because it kind of is, but they can stay. mean, the only reason they're not filling up games is because they suck. but you know, it's the Dolphins. have, they've had an undefeated season. They've won super bowls, maybe just the one super bowl. ⁓ my, my, well, I'm going to come back to a problem I have with them later. Okay. Marlins get them out. Don't need them. Yep. Get them out. get it. They won two world series. Who cares? Just go. They, don't need to be there. ⁓ use that stadium. Knock it down. I don't care. Knock it down. ⁓ the Florida Panthers get them out. I like there's this thing. with the people up North who don't think Southern teams should have hockey. I don't necessarily agree with that, but I don't think Florida needs to. Right. So the Panthers move them. I get it. They won two Stanley cups in a row. Don't care. Get them out. Do move them? I don't think Miami needs any teams other than the dolphins. Okay. Next, the Orlando magic. Fine. They can stay. They're good. ⁓ not good. I mean, they're good to stay. ⁓ the bucks. Fine. They can stay. Whatever. Lightning. Fine. They're they're Florida's one hockey team. They're fine. Okay. ⁓ the raise they're fine pending, getting a real stadium and picking a city, a real city. what I mean. I went to spring training in 2008 and I was there. That was the year where Evan Longoria was, was hidden. hitting the league and they had just done their rebrand to the Rays with their new little jerseys and whatnot. And I remember getting a flyer about their cool new stadium that was being built right there in the parking lot. That was 18 years ago. And then mother nature said, Hey Tampa, we're going to fuck up your stadium. Damn right. Right. here it goes. ⁓ no, we're just going to rebuild it. We're going to rebuild it. And I saw I saw these people on Twitter who were like, ⁓ my gosh, it's so much better than it was. No, no, shut up. Yeah, stop it. Yeah. It looks newer because the roof looks newer because they had to replace it. Okay. But they can stay, but they need a stadium. Otherwise get them out. All right. Let's see. Jaguars move, get them out, get out, get out, go somewhere else partially to spite, ⁓ Paul Tagliabue RIP. because that was the team he said, I'm to put a team in Jacksonville and not Baltimore. They have done nothing. They, they didn't go to a pool, right? They got a pool. I liked it. They keep the pool. That's fun. I don't think I would ever get in that pool. He would, would go in it. Okay. I don't think I would get in the diamond backs hot tub either. Oh, I would. You would. Yeah. If we had your bachelor party, that was one of the things we were going to get in. So, Oh, I remember that. Yeah. The Miami heat. Fine. Leave the heat. They've got history. They got good turnout. got good turnout. Yep. Yeah. I know that people clown on them for, people leaving that finals game against the Spurs, but you know, those people are idiots. Just stay, you watch your team lose, you know, soak it in, soak it in. okay. I'm almost done. The Miami grand prix. This it's the track that goes around the dolphin stadium out. It's a horrible race. It's, it's like a thousand dollars a seat and the track isn't even any good. Like, okay. Horrible. Gone. ⁓ let's see. What is this? What is this word? Florida. Florida golf playing golf in Florida. The only tournament that should be in Florida is the players. All of them out. They just had the one at Trump Doral. It was horrible. Get it out. Florida golf is terrible. Orlando magic. I said the magic. said they can stay. We've pretty much covered the professional sports. If, yeah, if I'm Tampa Bay, I'm moving to, well, I don't There should be some kind of analysis instead of feeling, Ooh, Miami has people. How about like, go to, if you go to a small city, people come like, or, well, every year. Yes. But it also you're pending pending good goodness. You know, go to a small city and then you suck. You know, then you're a small city with no. again. gives a shit? Yeah, right. Yeah. Who cares these days? ⁓ inter Miami, inter Miami, that's David Beckham soccer team. It's one of the most popular teams. It's the most popular team in MLS. Why? Why? Because messy, because messy is there and because Suarez is there and because boost gets is there. And once those guys leave and they suck. It's, it's just going to turn into another Miami team other than the heat. So I, I, I was not a, when I used to care about MLS, I don't anymore. I was anti inter Miami because Orlando city got a team. can stay Orlando city soccer can stay. Although I think they suck again, but that's my thoughts on Florida reduce Florida sports too much. get they have a lot of population, but there's not that many teams in New York. There are more, there are teams in New York, but it's not that many. another thing, the Marlins uniforms are just God awful. They are ugly as shit. The logo is That's part of the next bit. you know, hopefully this little rant didn't tune, people didn't tune up, but I don't care. got to listen regardless. Fuck Derek Jeter. Yeah. That's, that's the whole purpose of this. Florida sports tanked when Derek Jeter showed up. He should have stayed up North with his Yankee losers. Okay. So do you have anything else to say on Florida? I don't know if there's much else to say. Just nuke the whole state. It's too hot in the summer. It's too hot. I like it in the winter. There's there's not enough vaccines. Okay. All right. We're going there. Okay. We have like 18 minutes left before, know, cause it's nighttime. We got to go to bed. this is where we're going to have our new little segment. So we've always never really had a way to end the show. We started with like hot take of the week and like, there is only so many
hot takes you can have. So I have a little blue book here. It's a Queens park ragers blue blue book. And I just, just for jot down my little notes, this is what I want to cover. And there's a bunch of little notes in here that ⁓ aren't worth a full segment. Some people will say, you're stupid. Marlin's rant wasn't worth a full segment. Well, you know what? You can suck it. But I have a lot of things in here. So I don't know if you have anything written down, but do you mind if I go through my list? ⁓ Go off, I think we should spend more time on this. on an episode, maybe as we get closer to college football season. ⁓ but these expanded tournaments, ⁓ here's the thing for the, for the, it shouldn't have been expanded for the women that that tournament is already just, it's so top heavy. If you're like not a top, you have no chance. Yeah. Yeah. It's dumb. mean, yeah. So It's dumb. Yeah, but we'll get, think that's, that is worth a future segment, but not Memorial Day weekend. You know? Yeah. I think in the 2014 playoff or college football, you you think, well that will get Maryland in. Okay. All right. I'm going to do this one next. You mentioned the dolphins and the Marlins with their uniforms. There has been a movement recently. started by me, I think, with the script Terp stuff of going back to old uniforms and saying that, you know what, this, this was right. We should have never changed it. Yep. Right. You got Maryland football. The flag thing was fun for a couple of years and then it just got stale. Now we're back to script Terps. Well, you also look at it like, my God, these guys are really bad at football. They look really silly in these uniforms. Yeah, exactly. Right. So I thought of some teams that are doing the same thing and it's the right thing to do. The commanders, obviously they're not putting the Redskins guy back on their helmet yet, ⁓ but they went back to the Redskins type unis. So much better than that junk they put out before. The Buccaneers did it. Right? When Tom Brady came back, Bucks said, ⁓ those uniforms are awful. Let's go back to these. They didn't go all the way back to the green sickles. ⁓ still bring those out. think every now. Yeah, it's just an alternate, but they're, they're normal is the dark red and the, and the gold like it. Love it. The brewers did it. The brewers did it. I like what the brewers have done. The Titans are doing it now. ⁓ I still think it's kind of weird how much they lean on the oilers stuff. Cause that That was Houston. that'd be like the rave. I know it's not quite one to one comparison, but it'd be like the Ravens wearing Colt stuff or the Orioles wearing St. Louis Brown stuff. You know, it's different. You can go back to, don't, I wasn't really that big of a fan of the Titans original uniforms, like the Steve McNair era. And this is better. But anyway, point is I like what teams are doing and more should do it and just stick with it. Stop with these gimmicky stuff that city connects. whatever. But just go back to the one thing that I think a lot of ⁓ the minute the millennials got, and like, know we're millennials, but the minute the millennials got into the marketing room, was like type font, ⁓ get rid of all the logos. We just need to put the brand on or the name of the organization. Like if you remember the Cleveland Cavaliers several years ago, it just said, Cleveland, you know, it's like basically time new Roman lean into the logo for God sakes. Yep. Give me more of the logo and the mascot on the uniforms. Yep. The turgeon era. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Just Maryland straight letters across got a little bit better. Right with the Willard era and you know, we're getting closer. But that post by inside Maryland sports. What I showed you where they they I've oh my gosh, that needs to come back. It's not that hard. Look, and even in those photos, they kept the tariff font numbers. Fine. Do that. But give me that back me the little checkerboard yellow and black on the sleeves and on the on the edges, sweet shorts. There's the shorts in basketball. I bring bring them back. That's what teams more teams need to do that. And obviously the Ravens change your uniforms. I don't know how I feel about it. I don't I think the little wings thing on the neck only looks good on the black. Otherwise, we're not going to, we're not going to see it at all during the game. guarantee you. For the first eight weeks, I'll be like, well, the Ravens are a new uniforms. It's like the random in place. I was expecting a new logo and I still hate the logo. Yeah. But all right. More teams need to do that. Okay. I only have two more things. Next thing. Okay. You play baseball growing up, right? Hell yeah. Were you a digger? when you were standing in the batter's Did you slam your foot on the ground a hundred times and take halfway to China? No, no. It actually drove me nuts. Yep. Like, cause yeah, by the end of it, it not even softball, like people still do it. And it's like you're, you're 50 feet underground. Like what are you doing? Right. Like you're going to trip coming out of the box and then some kid has to slide into there. They're going to break a finger and that's the, this is a boomer take. No, it's not. It's dumb. It doesn't. help you like say, Oh, I'm getting grip. You know, I'm getting more more push off. That's what your cleats are for. Like the pros aren't digging the China. They're just kind of digging in a little bit. They twist their feet, they twist their feet and they use the cleats and it was the same thing on the pitcher's mound. And that was where I couldn't fricking hit, but I could pitch and I would get you the pitchers mound and I put my foot in and I'm like three inches in front of the mound because there's a four foot hole in front of it. And even if you filled it in, with dirt you just, you just sing back down. So anybody listening who was a digger, you suck. You suck. And when I go get older, get older, when my son grows up and
I'm going to coach him, I am going to complain about holes in the ground and I'm going to go at night and I'm going to bring dirt and I'm going to fix it. I'm going to have one of those other family, you know, bang it down, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Actually the worst hole was the follow through. hole. I swear I almost rolled my ankle almost every single time because some idiot would would just like want to make a hole over there because that's where they their foot landed or you know, it's just like if you're ready, your left foot would land there and then you know, yeah, no horrible. right. Last thing I have and then I'll see if you have anything to add. I don't really watch the NBA. I tried talked about this before I tried. in the early 2000s when I was 12 and 13 and Michael Jordan was on team. And I thought Juan Dixon and Steve Blake and Jared Jeffries and the, know, and then Gilbert Arenas saw these guys were going to take that. That was it. The wizard shower. Right. then, you know, well that was John Wall, right? Yeah. I think also had another freak incident which screwed up his knee. So now they've had two generational talents who have screwed up their knees in very weird ways. First of all, you did not fall in the shower, John Wall. Okay. All right. That's like, uh, did he do? did you think you did? Well, it's like Sergio Kindle falling down the steps. Yeah. Um, anyway, reason I bring that up is I've tuned into a couple NBA playoff games. shy Gilgis Alexander SGA SGA two time MVP who done two time MVP. Somebody needs to beat him up. I'm tired of it. I like like, you know, I, I, I am now watching hockey and I used to think fighting in hockey was dumb, but that's because I wasn't watching hockey. Fighting in hockey is awesome. Like some you, you, somebody rams your guy head first into the wall. That guy needs to be beat up. So they go and they beat him up. And you know, after the game, they're going to jar out there. They're going to jaw at each other. You'd be sick. But then after the game, like, I'll get it. That was cool. And then, you know, at the beginning of a playoff series, a few weeks ago, the two captains dropped gloves because of a beef in the regular season. Like, that's awesome. Bring that now. I was going to say, bring that to the NBA, but they might take it a little overboard and have a little malice at the palace. type stuff, which I will never forget where I was when that happened. I was in my mom's house watching TV and I scrolled off of an Orioles game over to TNT or whatever it was on. And the words were like, know, Detroit game suspended because of brawl. And then it was just a replay over and over again around our tests and Germain O'Neill, right? Was he, he was going to kill a man. But then he slipped. I was watching that live. I was up in Gettysburg for the blue and gray cup, which they probably don't call that anymore for soccer. My dad was passed out on the couch. And I was like, dad, you gotta wake up dad. Roderick Test just jumped into the crowd. wake up. He's like, ugh. that. Fight fans. We don't need Malice at the Palace, but we need. Yeah, I agree. Definitely. somebody. It doesn't have to be Wemby, right? You know, save his save him. And he already threw one elbow. Yeah, you know, somebody on the bench. How about how about Ron Harper? He's hurt, right? So beyond though. think he's a perfect just just bring him in and I mean, maybe even just kick him in the knee or or just beat him up. Beat him up. I saw him hurt him not saying hurt him send a message. Right? And that's my, the thing with the NBA is I think they come to say, sometimes they take it too far. You know, it's not a hockey fight. It's I'm trying to hurt this person fight. So don't do that. Make it a hockey fight and send a message. I'm tired of your little flopping. I'm tired of. I've watched a compilation the other day of every shot attempt in the first half against the Spurs the other day. He flopped. Yeah. Everyone. You know what? You know, say too, this isn't necessarily an NTSGA thing. Anybody, the whole team needs to be beat up too. They called a foul on Harrison Barnes because the one guy flopped. Yeah. never thought. Yeah. Yeah. Beat him up too. ⁓ Beat up James Harden. He needs to be beat up. He's getting beat up enough on defense. So that's true. But yeah, no, it's, it's the whole like, You know, all these people are like, oh, your soccer's so stupid because all the players do is flop and everything. Like, dude, watch the NBA. Every shot, the guy who's shooting the ball from three point line sticks his leg out and jumps backwards in pain. Like, you really want to get rid of flopping? Then if you flop more than two times in the game, you're suspended. Yeah. And find them and make it a real fine. You know. Not, not a $5,000, which is like, forget what some athletes said. I might've even been Dwayne Wade. could completely make that up where he said like a $10,000 fine is like five cents out of my pocket. Something like that. Yeah. In comparison. Yeah. Give him, give him six figures. We had six figure fines for this because it's killing the product. Like as much as I disliked the Steph Curry style of basketball of shoot and pray, although he wouldn't pray. knew he was going to make it. right and how that has kind of completely changed basketball. I take that 100 times out of 100 over this crap. Oh, yeah. It's horrible. Yeah. Yeah, it's I mean, at this point, maybe get rid of one more one extra ref. So you have two refs on the court and I'd say one ref. So he's not going to see all those flops because he's sprinting back down the court. Yeah. And this also goes back to my thing the last episode where I said or that's whenever it was where I said, ⁓ need to be held accountable. Hold the refs accountable. I know the, you know, Adam Silver loves this because he's getting eyeballs and on Twitter and he's blowing up. But it's enough is enough. Can we just play the sport? Can we just
play the sport? Move the three point line back like 15 feet and a flopping. You are, you get shot in the leg after the game. If you flop, okay, let's let's back. Let's bring it. Let's reel it back. Okay. Reel it back. A paintball with a paintball. With a paintball. Yeah. And the chest. Yeah. Not the chest. You know, that could. The Mark Hamlin. Yeah. don't. In the, like, how about the, the, the thigh? The thrill of maybe getting your heart stopped. Oh my God. Okay. Well, did you have anything? I got a little. Okay. Cause we got three minutes. All right. Orioles are breaking our heart. They, uh, they, they, they suck. Yes. They can't pitch. They can't do anything. Suddenly Shane Bos is like the best pitcher on the team, but that far is very, very well, actually getting it together. Yeah. But the bees killer bees and starter. Okay. Cause you know, we still have a dog in the bullpen. ⁓ he's starting to get a little shaky, but okay. What's your, what's your, you have one move. You are Michael eyes. And you what are you doing? It can be good or bad or could be for a rebuild or it could be I'm going to do this and to get back on track. One move. You get one move. Tyler O'Neill to jail. He cannot continue to play. He can't, you know, he's made some diving catches, but I think remember we were saying one time there was a catch where he had to dive and it was like 85 % of people make this play. Right. And you know, they probably make it standing up. He, he, he's supposed to supposedly this lefty masher and he's hitting under a hundred. Yup. he needs to go. He needs to go in a map. ⁓ I would get the team you as it I saw this a couple days ago. I this is the best way to build team chemistry. And it's also I think, in my opinion, also punishment. The team goes to Fed Hill, you can pick which which bar they go into. Don't know. Don't know is out there anymore. CNR CNR is not there anymore. Well, it's called something else. Wayward, which we were okay. You're go to a Denny's and we're gonna bring all the alcohol and you cannot leave as a team until you finish all the alcohol and it's gonna be team building because you're get wasted and you're gonna, you know, know, be build camaraderie. But also I want you woken up tomorrow as hungover as shit. And then I am going into each and every person's apartment, condo, wherever, I'm hiring a mariachi band and following them around all day on their buy day. And then the next day in the dugouts, I'm going to go, or dug out, not dug out, dug out. I'm going to say, if you don't turn your shit around now, Gunner, figure the fuck out. Stop hitting number ones, hit a line drive, figure the fuck out. Tyler O'Neill, you can't have whey protein for a month. You aren't doing shit. Uh, I will do this to you every goddamn day until you turn around. You know, there was a, uh, an episode about this and Ted Lasso member member in the season where they were, they were struggling and they went to Amsterdam and Ted Lasso said, you know, no curfew tonight. And you know you remember what they ended up doing, Josh? You remember what they ended up doing? Didn't get arrested. No, no. The team other than Jamie Tartt. So somebody needs to take Gunner. and do a Roy Kent Jamie Tart training session. Right? Not you. You go do something. The rest of the team had a pillow fight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. But fill the pillows with bricks. Send the message. Actually, some of them filled with bricks. Other ones filled with pillows. like, you know, yeah, everybody. Tyler O'Neill with the brick. Oh no, Tyler O'Neill. He's hurt. Just hit him in the arm. Yeah. Okay. All right. Good job. We're out of time. It's bedtime. all right. Well, catch you next time. Thanks everybody for listening. Don't leave yet. Yes. leave. Hello.