บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Andre Agassi Part Six - Andre Meets His Other Match

a lot of battles in that rivalry myself. 76 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:57.639 Yeah, I don't know if I have a favorite. 77 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.360 I haven't been watching tennis long enough to have a 78 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:01.479 favorite rival. 79 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.960 Borg McEnroe seems like it must have been really fun 80 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:04.439 to watch. 81 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:08.919 Didn't Lonely Island do a thing about Borg and McEnroe? 82 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:10.479 Am I imagining that? 83 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:10.759 Oh? 84 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.240 I think they did a fake version of that, an 85 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:16.199 HBO thing. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. 86 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.319 I remember there was. It definitely showed dong I remember that. 87 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.800 Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, Bjorn Borg John McEnroe. That 88 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:25.680 was a big rivalry. 89 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.079 I just wasn't old. And they tried to get I 90 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.240 remember they tried to get Borg removed because his heart 91 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.120 rate was really low, and they said that it was 92 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.399 cheating or something like that, that he had such a 93 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:36.199 low heart rate. 94 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.399 That doesn't which is the most insane thing. The only 95 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.439 reason that I even know that story is because I 96 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:45.360 remember hearing that as a kid and being like, that's insane. Yeah, 97 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.759 kicking out shack for being too tall. Yeah, that's weird. 98 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:49.199 Yeah. 99 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:52.800 I think Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer is probably the 100 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:57.079 rivalry that resonates with me the most. And even then 101 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.879 I wasn't super duper watching tennis. By the end of 102 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:00.759 editor's run. 103 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:06.160 What about Anna Kornakova and winning? Oh yeah, she never overcame. 104 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.839 That rival that did matter was pretty lopsided. She got 105 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:12.439 that name and likeness, right, scenario going on. 106 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.399 Yeah, she also got Enrique Iglesias. You god damn right 107 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.759 argue with those results, like to see Maria Sharapova pull 108 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:23.959 in Rique Iglesias. I bet Maria Sharapova pull in Rika Iglesias. 109 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.519 Actually she's so rich. Now, did you know that about 110 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:30.120 her sharpolo? Yeah, she's on Shark Tank all the time. 111 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.319 So yeah, Agasy versus Sampras. They played each other thirty 112 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.600 four times from nineteen eighty nine to two thousand and two. 113 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:42.279

Rubber band matches. Right, what do you mean meaning that 114 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:44.839 he wins one, then he wins one, then he wins one, 115 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:45.560 then he wins one. 116 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.519 Right, Oh, no, no, no, no, no, it was not lop sided, 117 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:53.519 but Sampress had the overall win twenty to fourteen. And 118 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:58.319 as they get later on, Sampress really starts dominating right 119 00:05:58.319 --> 00:05:59.160 around nine to eleven. 120 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:01.160 Yeah, is that full power. 121 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:06.199 Big big turning point for tennis, nothing else really, just tennis. 122 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.360 Their careers really are a testament to how far image 123 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.519 can take a person, because in the big scheme of things, 124 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.920 Pete Samprass is the far better player. He's the better player, 125 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.800 he's the more accomplished player. He's also an American player, 126 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.199 and as someone who watches a shit ton of tennis, 127 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:30.040 his name does not come up to this day all 128 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:30.680 that much. 129 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.079 It's sort of like in basketball, how people forget about 130 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:37.519 every talented spur because they've always been very boring. Tim 131 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:40.519 Duncan pretty phenomenal, but he's a piece of white toast. 132 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:40.920 Yeah. 133 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.240 Bill Russell is another example of that, just because he 134 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:47.040 played so long ago. Because when people start talking about 135 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.879 Lebron and Jordan as the goat, number of championships always 136 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.560 comes up, and inevitably someone's gonna be like, well, if 137 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.920 that is your metric, let me tell you about Bill Russell. 138 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:01.560 So yeah, Sampress. He was dominant all of the head 139 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.319 to head stuff with him in Agasy, he is way ahead. 140 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:08.600 Agasy was world number one for one hundred and one 141 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:12.399 weeks throughout his career. Sampras was number one for two 142 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:14.160 hundred and eighty six weeks. 143 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:15.600 That's a long time. 144 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.800 That's some weeks. That's years, that's what that's four years? 145 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:25.160 Five years? Yeah, five years. Yeah, boy, my math sucks. Huh. 146 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.560 But at the same time, who are we doing the 147 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.439 podcast about, you know, yeah, it's Andrea Agassy because Pete 148 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.959 Sampras is just a folded shirt. He's just a nice 149 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:38.360 cream colored polo, folded and put in the drawer. 150 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.360 Yeah, when you read Andre Agassy talking about him, he 151 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:46.959 gives the impression that Pete Sampras did two things in life. 152 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.600 Beat Andrea Agassy at tennis, and then when he wasn't 153 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:53.920 doing that, he was somewhere laying down thinking about beating 154 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:55.279 Andrea Agassy. 155 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:56.959 He would recharge in a closet. 156 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.199 Yeah, it is shocking how even to this day. I 157 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.800 think part of the problem is that Agacy, Andy Roddick, 158 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:11.040 Pete Sampress, everyone eventually got eclipsed by Federer, Nadal and 159 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.199 then Djokovic all came along and they've been the Big 160 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.839 Three ever since. And Andy Roddick's the last American man 161 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:19.199 to win a Major. 162 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.480 So Pete Sampress just gets lost in the shuffle. Yeah, 163 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.879 the Tony Parker of tennis. You know, you say this 164 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:27.959 like when you look at stats and numbers and stuff, 165 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:28.680 if someone. 166 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:29.399 Is very boring. 167 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:33.840 David Wells is a much more interesting pitcher than just 168 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.320 fucking John Smoltz or something like that. Greg Maddock, You're like, Oh, 169 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:39.039 he's really good at placing the ball somewhere. 170 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.120 David Wells. He showed up drunk today. Yeah, he was 171 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.519 good at smoking. Yeah, David Wells fascinating person. 172 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.200 Yeah, he'd be an interesting season if there's enough info 173 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.720 out there about him. So yeah, maybe if Pete Sampress 174 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:58.120 had the courage and tenacity to play in denim booty 175 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.000 shorts in an eighties action movie hero wig, then maybe 176 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:04.960 we would be doing a podcast about him. 177 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:07.399 Maybe if he beat the shit out of a pillow 178 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.200 over his wig. Pete Sampers doesn't seem like he'd beat 179 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:14.039 up a pillow. He'd be like, actually, pillows mean a 180 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:15.080 lot to my family. 181 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.679 Yeah, he would, just if he went bald. He would 182 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.879 just make a wig out of his ample chest and. 183 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.399 Oh god, yeah. Yeah. He'd sign up for the hair 184 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:25.559 club and they're like, this is not going to take long. 185 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:27.840 They'd be like, are you here to donate? Or

yeah, 186 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.840 what's going on? You got some fault, you got some 187 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.600 bonus follicles? You want to hear and shout. 188 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.759 Out to our swarthy people. You guys are underrepresented. Pete 189 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.360 Sampress really stood up for the brillow armed community. 190 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.720 Yeah, he was one of those players. It took me 191 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.639 about ten years to remember he was an American player 192 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:48.440 because he looked like he was going to be British 193 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:52.360 at best. But yeah, Pete really throws it out for me. 194 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.840 Pete's a real American ass name. Yeah, there are Peters 195 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.240 in London and shit, but guy shows up calling himself Pete. 196 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.120 That's a sense in a name. Yeah, it's a Pete 197 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:06.120 Rose name. Oh yeah, there, and I guess that makes 198 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.600 way more sense. That does make it a Cincinnati name. 199 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:14.799 And Agassy talks about meeting Sampress for the first time 200 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:18.559 in his book and talks about not having a ton 201 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.240 of respect for him. Granted this was at a youth 202 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.799 tournament when Agassy was ten and Pete Sampress was nine, 203 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.519 and if you recall at that point in history, Agassy 204 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:32.399 was a year off of beating sports legend Jim Brown 205 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:35.159 in a game of tennis at his local club. So 206 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:37.759 it's gonna be hard pressed to get him to be 207 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:39.919 excited by a child player. 208 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:43.759 It's also interesting to be like, if you're ten, ouh, 209 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.679 I didn't know the concept of respect at that point 210 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.399 in time. You can't ask me if I respected anybody 211 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:50.559 at ten. I can't tell you. 212 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.759 Yeah, probably not. But also I wasn't a high level 213 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:58.039 athlete by the age of nine. Andre Agasty seems like 214 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:00.679 he was. You would have to do manned a little 215 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:04.000 bit of respect to even play him, even at that age. 216 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:06.919 So especially because of that wig. Yeah, he was already 217 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.480 bald by the age of nine. He had that thick, 218 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:12.679 thick wig going on. You gotta respect that. It's like 219 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:13.840 Jane Child. 220 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.000 He talks in his book about seeing Sampress a few 221 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.440 years later. He's sitting with Nick Bollettieri and his brother 222 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.440 and they're all watching Sampress practice after a match and 223 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:29.919 just marveling at how little he's improved since Agassy saw 224 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.399 him last and how whoever was coaching him should be 225 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.039 charged with a crime because they could tell he was 226 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:40.120 just not gonna make it on the tour. There's even 227 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:44.360 a whole extended section where Agassy talks about how his 228 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:48.159 brother was especially angry, and he thinks it's because his 229 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.720 brother saw himself in Sampress at that point in that 230 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.679 neither of them were ever gonna make it on the tour. 231 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.960 Should be a crime. It's called Grand Theft Championship. Goddamn 232 00:11:59.039 --> 00:11:59.559 right it is. 233 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.879 He also played him a few months after that at 234 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:06.679 a tournament in Rome, and Sampress wasn't much better. Agacy 235 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:08.240 beat him in straight sets. 236 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:12.559 So in Rome must have been really hard for him. Why, 237 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:14.799 I know, it seems like Italy's nice, you know. 238 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.039 Italy is nice. I'm sure I've never been. I've never been. 239 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:20.600 But let's go to Rome. Let's do it. You wanna 240 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:23.320 go now? Yeah, I can go later tonight. Yeah, let's 241 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.639 do it. We'll do it. Yeah, actually doing a podcast 242 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:26.360 thing now, but. 243 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.200 We'll just record from the Road from the Roamed from 244 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:33.039 the Colossus at Rhodes. So he beats him in straight 245 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.799 sets at that tournament, and then things change at the 246 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:41.120 nineteen ninety US Open. This if you recall from earlier 247 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:45.240 in the series, was the summer of Revenge. 248 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.159 He had been playing kind. 249 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:54.039 Of well but not great, and he decides this one summer, 250 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:55.799 I'm gonna work out really hard. 251 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.200 I'm gonna win all the time. 252 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.399 He packs on ten pounds of muscle before the nineteen 253 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:04.879 ninety US Open. 254 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.559 Is that helpful for tennis? I mean, I would think 255 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:10.799 to some extent. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's helpful. 256 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:12.480 But I know in boxing, if you put on ten 257 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:14.879 pounds of muscle, they're like, all right, enjoy this new 258 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:15.879 weight class you're in. 259 00:13:16.200 -->

00:13:16.440 Well. 260 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.679 With tennis, I think it would depend on where you're 261 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:25.720 putting on the muscle, because I can't imagine more leg muscle, 262 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:27.480 for example, would be a problem. 263 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.360 No, No, that's what I was thinking too. 264 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.399 Because then that's just going to make your serve speed 265 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:37.480 even serviceable. And so he goes into this tournament in 266 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.159 the best play in shape of his life up to. 267 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.360 That nineteen ninety What a time to be in America 268 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.320 in the best shape of your life. Yeah. In music 269 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:47.399 is banging. 270 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:51.720 You're wearing denim booty shorts and they wearing those hiked 271 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:53.159 up daisy dukes. 272 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.639 Dangle an ear ring, probably with a tomahawk on the 273 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.159 end getting out of a cock shaped car. 274 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:03.759 Yeah, eighty nineties ruled fucking that. Late eighties, early nineties. 275 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.000 That's the sweet spot right there for. 276 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.879 The nantest eleven. Then the wow wow last. 277 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:13.440 That period between the end of the Cold War and 278 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:15.519 the start of the Gulf War, where we didn't have 279 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:17.840 any enemies as a country, Oh. 280 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.720 Wow, Chef's kiss. None that we recognized well, none that 281 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:26.919 we felt threatened by, yes, until Iraq. Then we felt 282 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.399 very threatened. Then we felt very threatened, maybe wrongly, but 283 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.159 very threatened. Nonetheless, God, that was a sweet ass pocket 284 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.559 though it was. That was a good Turtles movie had 285 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:37.679 just come out, yep. 286 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.840 And so he beats Boris Becker in the semifinals and 287 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.879 then went back to his hotel, where, to his astonishment, 288 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.639 he watched that scrawny sampress kid put a hurtin on 289 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.759 John McEnroe in the semifinals of the nineteen ninety US 290 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.039 Open in McEnroe, that's later in. 291 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.360 His career, but it's late. Yeah, it's not that. 292 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.039 Late though, it's laid into his career. But he was 293 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.840 still good bid it before mister Deed's It is before 294 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.320 mister eats you got me there, you got me there, 295 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:13.480 God damn it. And Pete Sampress just Rex Macenroe. But 296 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:18.799 Andre

Agacy still feels good about things because Pete Sampress 297 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.240 had to have his feet taped by the end of 298 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:24.360 that match because his feet were covered in blisters. 299 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.440 That makes me just shudder thinking of that. 300 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.360 That is the thing that I always think about when 301 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:34.360 it comes to tennis, especially when you're talking about the majors. 302 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.480 Those are five set matches where you have to win 303 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:43.720 best of three. Those matches routinely go four and five hours, 304 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.639 and you're just on your feet, moving constantly that whole time. 305 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.200 I wonder how those toe shoes would do in a 306 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:53.320 scenario like that, if that would help or hurt. 307 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:57.399 Yeah, I don't know. I imagine there's almost nothing you 308 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.360 can really do because it's some you're beat up. Yeah, 309 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.039 at some point, biology is just going to take over. 310 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:05.720 Your feet are going to be like, man, sit down, 311 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:07.200 what the fuck? 312 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:09.600 What are we playing tennis or something. Oh. 313 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:13.480 There's a player named Francis Tiafo who the first two 314 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.759 or three times I saw him play, I was like, oh, man, 315 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:17.799 it looks like his feet are really hurting, and that's 316 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.440 just how he walks. And I can't tell if it's 317 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:23.679 because his feet hurt all the time from playing tennis. 318 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:24.919 Or if he just walks weird. 319 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:26.840 That was the card you were trying to get out 320 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.879 of those tops chrome tennis that was eluding you with Tiafo. 321 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.200 Yeah, yeah, see I pay attention. I finally got some. 322 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.679 And yeah, I've always wondered that about tennis is the 323 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.559 feet stuff. It's got to be tiring in general, but 324 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:43.360 just to be on your feet that long too. 325 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.720 I'm sure you get used to it, but how used 326 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.279 to it can you get? So andre Agassi's feeling encouraged 327 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:53.279 by that. And also there's this quote in the morning, 328 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:55.720 I feel ready to play a ten setter. I have 329 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:58.919 no hair piece issues because I'm not wearing my hair piece. 330 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:03.399 I'm using a new low maintenance camouflaging system that involves 331 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:06.000 a thicker headband and brightly colored highlights. 332 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:08.920 There's simply no way I can lose the pete. 333 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.240 That hapless kid I watched with sympathy last year, that 334 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.440 poor klutz who couldn't keep the ball in the court. 335 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.119 So he's got all sorts of my wig ain't falling 336 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:21.240 off in this major confidence going on. Yeah, he's got 337 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.839 the confidence of a whig demand without the necessity of 338 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:24.559 the wig. 339 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.680 And that makes the impact of the next quote all 340 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.279 the more impactful. 341 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:30.960 Here goes. 342 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.599 Then a different Peach shows up, a Pete who doesn't 343 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:39.680 ever miss. We're playing long points, demanding points, and he's flawless. 344 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:45.079 He's reaching everything, hitting everything, bounding back and forth like 345 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:49.160 a gazelle. He's serving bombs, flying to the net, bringing 346 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:52.599 his game right to me. He's laying wood to my serve. 347 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:58.400 I'm helpless, I'm angry. I'm telling myself this is not happening. 348 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.880 That's the kind of play that's gonna get your Mortal 349 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:03.559 Kombat wife exactly. 350 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:05.599 And I bet that's what he was thinking when he 351 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:08.359 was playing that way. Someday it's gonna be a Mortal 352 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:09.160 Kombat movie. 353 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.240 Someday I'm gonna marry a Mortal Kombat woman. I will 354 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:15.640 marry someone from that movie Bobin Chu, the lu Kang 355 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:20.160 actor Christopher Lambert. But it did happen. He beat him. 356 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:24.240 Pete Sampres beat Andre Agassy at the nineteen ninety US Open, 357 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:30.279 and that kicked off his rivalry with andre Agassy and 358 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.880 their next big match of note happens. There were a 359 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.319 couple in between this, but it happens in the finals 360 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.559 at Wimbledon in nineteen ninety three. 361 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:42.799 That's again, that's a good It's a good year. 362 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.480 Yeah, all your grunge stars are still alive. There's rock 363 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.880 music on the radio. The golf war is over. So 364 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:51.880 MTV was still playing videos. 365 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.000 Am I right? Remember when MTV used to play videos? 366 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.279 Waco hadn't happened yet. Well tis not everything? So not 367 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.240 everything's great? 368 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:05.079 So this is the match where Pete

Samprass does a 369 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:09.279 thing that will become the hallmark of his matches with Agassy. 370 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.960 Agassy goes into Wimbledon with an injured wrist, probably from 371 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.480 jerking it too hard in Duron math. 372 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.200 Yeah exactly, Jay, we call that. 373 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.440 But Sampress was also injured, and for most of the 374 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.640 match he seemed to be more injured than Agassy. During 375 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.720 the fifth set, Pete Samprass started wincing and grabbing at 376 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:33.960 his shoulder and he calls for a medical time out. 377 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.839 This is a quote from Andrea Agassy during the delay 378 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.799 while he's being worked on, I tell myself this match 379 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:45.039 is mine, but nope. When that match resumes, Pete Samprass 380 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:50.000 is a completely different person. And that is the thing 381 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:55.519 that Pete Sampress repeatedly does to Andre Agassy throughout their rivalry. 382 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.799 It's real, Daniel LaRusso energy, it's gonna fight. 383 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.039 Yeah, it feels like almost a rope adult kind of thing, 384 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:07.640 because there's a bunch of matches where Agassy's like, I 385 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.200 knew I fucking had this dude. He was hurt, he 386 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:13.799 was tired, and then he just fucking flips a switch 387 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:16.480 and becomes a different Pete Sampress. 388 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:18.039 I'd be like, hey, can we get a camera on 389 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:21.039 him during the time out please? I want to see 390 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.079 if he's hoff in math or some shit like that. 391 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:27.880 This is a quote from Andre Agassy about that match. 392 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:31.359 He's sloughed off that other doubt ridden Pete as a 393 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.799 snake sheds its skin, and now he's in the process 394 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:35.640 of shedding me. 395 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:36.880 End quote. 396 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.920 And sure enough Sampress recovers and wins that match. Also 397 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.400 hell yeah, which I mean, good for him. That's uh, 398 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.480 that's it's impressive to be able to recover that way. 399 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:50.839 And that really is one of the things, I think, 400 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:55.400 especially in tennis, that separates the really great players from 401 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.759 the average players. Tennis is a mental game as much 402 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.960 as anything people. If you read any tennis player talk 403 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.000 about tennis, the mental part of it is as important 404 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:09.079 as anything else. There's tennis players who travel with mental 405 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:13.039 health coaches, they call them. It's a sport where you'll 406 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:15.720 be playing really great and then one thing goes wrong 407 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:20.839 and it just changes everything, and you can feel it 408 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:23.799 when it happens if you're watching a match, especially with 409 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:24.759 certain players. 410 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:27.400 I talk about Jessica Pagola all the time. 411 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:32.440 She has this thing where she's never made it past 412 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:36.680 the quarterfinals in a major, and every time she's close, 413 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:40.000 she'll be winning a match and just there will be 414 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.079 one unforced error and it's like here we go, she goes. 415 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:46.880 It's how I felt watching the Cubs for a lot 416 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:51.039 of years. That's how the Bruins are in the playoffs. Yeah. 417 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:53.519 Yeah, you can just feel it sometimes you know it's coming, 418 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.960 and then there's some tennis players who overcome that. Do 419 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:59.960 you think Pegoula is like that because she has Buffalo 420 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:01.599 Bill's energy, Yeah, it could be. 421 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.359 It could just be a goola part of the part 422 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:05.240 of the family. Right. 423 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:11.720 So not long after that nineteen ninety three Wimbledon match, 424 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:16.240 Andrea Agassy and Pete Sampras agreed to sit down for 425 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:20.599 a joint interview. And this is when an incident that 426 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:25.720 I've mentioned very briefly before happens where Pete Sampras shows 427 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:29.440 up for this interview. It's being held at Andrea Agassi's 428 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.920 hotel room, and Pete Sampras walks in, and Andrea Agassy 429 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:38.079 has a fucking parrot hell yeah, which. 430 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:38.880 I don't know. 431 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:42.599 Apparently Pete Sampras was very put off by this. 432 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:46.079 Oh was he? Is it because the parrot has color? Oh? No, 433 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:49.119 I'm team Sampras on this one. Fuck a bird. Don't 434 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.960 let your bird fly around loose in a room. Whose 435 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.240 idea was it to go to that Agassy's room? Though? 436 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:58.160 Probably Agassi's because he had to. Samprince was probably like, 437 00:22:58.160 --> 00:22:59.519 I don't want you to come to my room. It's 438 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:03.960 coming in shit, shit and porn. Yeah, guns, guns everywhere, 439 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:06.640 just guns and bags and bags of coke. I

don't know, man, 440 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:10.119 it's his fucking room. Yeah, but still, what do you 441 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:12.279 wanted to kill the parrot? He could have not brought 442 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:15.160 the parrot, I mean part of this family, Adam. 443 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.200 Presumably there's somewhere else the parrot could have gone, but 444 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.759 Pete Sampress was very put off by this. Yeah, I'm 445 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.799 always going to be team parrot to some extent in 446 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:28.440 that I would rather that little guy be flying in 447 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.519 a forest and not in someone's living room annoying the 448 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:34.759 shit out of me. But also as far as team 449 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:38.200 Agasy versus Team Sampress, I'm team Sampress on this one. 450 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.680 Keep your parrots at home, not me. I bring all 451 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:43.599 your parrots to all your fucking hotel rooms. 452 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:48.640 But that really is kind of a living representation of 453 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:51.960 the difference between these two. Andre Agassi is the type 454 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:54.839 to bring a parrot to an interview. Pete Sampras is 455 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:57.240 the type who will be put off if you bring. 456 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:00.839 Yeah to clutch his pearls over a parrot. Fucking nerd. 457 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:04.519 And then here's a quote from Andrea Agassy. We do 458 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:07.319 the interview, and suddenly I feel as if I'm in 459 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:10.839 the room with two parrots. At least when eye bullshit reporter, 460 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:13.640 I do it with some flair, a little color. 461 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:16.880 Pete sounds more robotic than Peaches. Peach. I think it 462 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:20.720 just revealed that Peaches is a robot parrot. Yeah, it 463 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:21.119 could be. 464 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:24.519 That would be shit, it would be funny if it 465 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:28.000 was a robot parrot. Pete Sampress just didn't realize that. 466 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:31.759 Andrea Agassy played along with it, fucking shucks it at him. 467 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:34.119 It's one of those put the quarter in and get 468 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:35.400 the egg with the little prize. 469 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:40.920 And there's another story. I didn't put it in the notes. 470 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:44.039 I don't know why. I legitimately just forgot, But there's 471 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:48.519 also a story about Andre Agassy and Pete Sampress going 472 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:52.359 to watch Brooks Shields perform in the Broadway version of Grease, 473 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.359 and apparently at that also, Pete. 474 00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:59.359 Sampras was like, fucking bullshit, Man, I don't like this. 475 00:24:59.400 --> 00:24:59.880 I want to go. 476 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.640 And here's the thing, still team Sampras on that too. 477 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:08.599 Why'd he go? Probably just being nice? Well, fucking don't go. 478 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:11.160 If you're gonna be fucking miserable about it. If you're 479 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:13.400 gonna be nice, don't be a piece of shit about 480 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:14.160 being nice. 481 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.160 Well, the thing is it was his first Broadway play, 482 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:18.759 he'd never been to one, and. 483 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:21.720 So I am again team Agasy on this one. Like, 484 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:23.799 I'm not saying I want to go to the Broadway 485 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:27.039 production of Greece. I'm just saying, if you fucking go 486 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:29.279 shut the fuck up about it. 487 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:33.119 Yeah, you'd have to read Agassy's description. He wasn't standing 488 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:35.039 up during quiet moments and being like. 489 00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:39.359 This sucks all those quiet moments in the Grease Broadway play. 490 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:42.599 Yeah, he was just fidgety, and Andre Agassy could tell 491 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:43.680 he didn't like it. 492 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:47.160 Maybe he had a hemorrhoid at him that. Maybe he 493 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:50.920 was fidgeting because he just fidgets. Could be why are 494 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:55.279 you bringing that up, Jeff? Maybe Adam people fidget naturally, 495 00:25:55.400 --> 00:26:00.519 and then maybe they fidget extra when their asshole is dying. 496 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:02.160 That's a hippo violation. 497 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:05.720 Actually, Jeff, I'm going to assume myself, I mean, the 498 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:07.279 person who would have that scenario. 499 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.119 So the next time Agasy gets rope adoped by Sampress 500 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:14.880 is that the finals of a tournament in Key Biscayne. 501 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:16.319 Florida, in nineteen ninety four. 502 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:20.200 Before that match, Agassy and Brad Gilbert walk in the 503 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:23.519 locker room to find Pete Sampras laying on the floor 504 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.559 with two trainers standing over him. He, as it turns out, 505 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:31.720 has food poisoning and it is bad enough that he's 506 00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:34.720 not going to be ready to play when the match 507 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:38.920 is slated to start. So the tournament director comes to 508 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:43.319 Andre Agassy and Brad Gilbert and asks if they would 509 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:47.119 consider giving Pete Sampress a little extra time. 510 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:49.640 To see if he can get well enough to play 511 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:50.359 in this match. 512 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:55.000 And Brad Gilbert

immediately, according to andre Agassy, gets a 513 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:58.839 look on his face that says no, no, he forfeits 514 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:03.119 this match. And Andrea Agassy, on the other hand, was like, 515 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:06.039 let's let him, Let's give him time. 516 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:11.559 And I can see both sides, ye team both yeah. 517 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:16.960 And even after the match, which of course Andrea Agassy loses, 518 00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:19.680 they have this exchange where he's like, yeah, I give 519 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:22.799 him time, and they're hanging out in the locker room. 520 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:26.599 Brad Gilbert is just giving him death stares, and Andrea 521 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:31.160 Agassy's like, look, man, he's probably not gonna get better anyway, 522 00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:33.839 so it'll be a quick night. 523 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.000 I'm gonna go out there and smoke this guy. 524 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:39.559 And once again, he gets out there and Pete Sampras 525 00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:43.759 is just a different person. It's like he was never 526 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:48.440 sick at all, and he annihilates andre Agassy and they 527 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:50.880 get back in the locker room and he and Brad 528 00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:54.319 Gilbert have this exchange about it where Brad Gilbert's like, 529 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:57.200 I fucking told you just should have had him four 530 00:27:57.279 --> 00:27:59.640 fit the match, you'd be going on to the next round. 531 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:02.000 And Agasy was like, yeah, I don't want to win 532 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:03.400 that way though I would. 533 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:06.720 Rather if it's only a competitor to take the buy 534 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:08.720 is not what competitors want to do. 535 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.880 Right, And by the end of that Brad Gilbert was like, 536 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:15.160 don't agree, but I respect your ethics good enough, and yeah, 537 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.640 I really can see both sides there, because obviously the 538 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.640 advantageous thing to do is take that forfeit, because that's 539 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:23.279 not an uncommon thing in tennis. 540 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.200 It's just called a walkover. Your competitor couldn't compete because 541 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:29.279 he's laying on the ground with food poisoning. 542 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:32.359 Yeah, because he's shitting his brains out the bathroom stall 543 00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:35.160 he had too much OK soda or whatever nineteen ninety 544 00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:38.359 four s scenario we are going on. So it wasn't 545 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:43.480 until the nineteen ninety five Australian Open that Agasy managed 546 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:46.119 to beat Pete Sampress in a Grand Slam final. 547 00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:49.160 That makes sense because everything is upside down there. 548 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:52.480 Correct, water flows backwards all the things. 549 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.960 Agasy beats Sampress, ever, it's dogs and cats living. 550 00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:58.039 Together and speaking of things not being the way they 551 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:01.960 usually are. Here's a quote about that win. Everyone says, 552 00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:04.799 it's my best slam yet because it's my first victory 553 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:07.480 over Pete in a slam final. But I think twenty 554 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.720 years from now I'll remember it as my first bald slam. 555 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:16.799 There it is. That's also what Australians call sex bald slam, 556 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:18.559 the al bold slam. 557 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.400 This is the point where the Agasy versus Sampress rivalry 558 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.279 really heats up, thanks in large part to a Nike 559 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:26.400 ad campaign. 560 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.680 Do you remember this commercial do? Actually? 561 00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:31.559 Yeah, yeah, I do too, where Pete Sampras Andre Agassi 562 00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:33.839 are in a cab and they just stop in the 563 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:36.759 middle of San Francisco and set up a net. 564 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.279 In the middle of the street and start fucking playing tennis. 565 00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:41.400 And then their net is stolen. 566 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:44.119 Yeah, And their car is broken into while the driver 567 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:45.279 is still in it. 568 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:49.400 Their bags are stolen. Yeah. So this is great. 569 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:54.200 Around this same time, when that ad campaign is running again, 570 00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:57.079 this rivalry is big news, so much so that The 571 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:00.759 New York Times does a profile of the the Agassy 572 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:05.400 Sampress rivalry, and Andrea Agassy talks about reading this article 573 00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:08.720 after it comes out and coming to a point where 574 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:13.079 the reporter asked Sampress what he liked about Andre Agassy, 575 00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:16.920 and Sampress, for one, can't come up with an answer 576 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.440 at first, and then finally just says. 577 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:23.240 I like the way he travels, which, ouch, that's what 578 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:26.160 I like about Lebron, the way he travels. Yeah, he 579 00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:30.000 does get away with some look it up on All 580 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:31.799 Star step you get it. Yeah. 581 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:34.319 I saw a clip the other day where it might 582 00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:36.319 have been some deep fakery, but it looked like he 583 00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:39.519 took about eight steps before he hit this dunk. 584 00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:41.960 You're in the

forty before he hit the dunk. 585 00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:46.519 So yeah, Pete Sampras, he just says he likes the 586 00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:49.599 way Andrea Agasy travels, which that's harsh. 587 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:51.000 That's a little harsh. 588 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:55.279 But to quote Kevin Durant after the Sun's got swept 589 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:58.039 by the Minnesota Timberwolves, if you win the game, say 590 00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:00.720 whatever you want, except he said do whatever you want. 591 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.799 Because they're asking about Anthony Edwards doing the fucking X thing. 592 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.200 It has crotched the wrestling move. 593 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:08.240 Oh this suck it. 594 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:12.400 Yeah he did do it for about fifteen minutes. 595 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.680 Hell yeah, that's Dude's rock. 596 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.519 He was just standing at the end of the court 597 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:20.519 doing forever. 598 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.640 He's like, they're doing a they're doing the host game interviews. 599 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:26.519 He's still doing it. Yeah, I think someone broke Anthony 600 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:33.519 edwardst So cut to the nineteen ninety five US Open. 601 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:38.160 Agasy beats Boris Becker in the semifinals to face Sampras 602 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:41.400 in the final. After his match with Becker, he's interviewed 603 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.480 on court, looks at the camera man and says, Pete, 604 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:48.440 I'm coming yeah, and then just throws a handful of 605 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:51.559 splooch in the camera. What he didn't realize that was 606 00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.720 a very physical match between him and Boris Becker, and 607 00:31:55.720 --> 00:32:00.160 Andre Agassi exerted a lot of energy, for one, and 608 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.319 also he had been looking forward to beating Becker in 609 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:07.000 a final for a long time because, if you recall 610 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.400 from our previous episodes, Boris Becker was one of Andrea 611 00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:15.039 Agassy's biggest rivals. He's the guy Nick Bolletieri started coaching 612 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:19.240 after Nick Bolletieri fired Andrea Agassy, so lots of bad 613 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.000 blood there. So he goes into this semi finals match 614 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.400 with Boris Becker and he wins. It's a very physical 615 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.039 match and he comes out of it full of adrenaline 616 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.799 so much so that he won yells what he say, Pete, 617 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.000 I'm coming coming, But two doesn't realize until he's finally 618 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.559 able to go to sleep at two am, and then 619 00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:43.359 wakes up screaming in pain at five AM. That's when 620 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:46.799 he

realizes he tore a bunch of cartilage in his ribs, 621 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:50.440 which for a tennis player is kind of like a 622 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:53.880 podcaster having a big rage in hemorrhoid and having to 623 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:56.240 sit for an hour at a time. 624 00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:58.599 Can you sympathize, Jeff, Yeah. 625 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:02.279 But only because of the tennis stuff. Holdsamindtercostal cartage, recently 626 00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:04.039 cartidge cartilage. 627 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.880 That would have to be one of the worst possible injuries. Also, 628 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:11.400 rafia On Nadal had oblique injuries for a long time. 629 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.920 I imagine that's really bad as a tennis player. 630 00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:15.319 Oof. 631 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.279 So he's had this injury before and he knows it 632 00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:21.559 takes about three weeks to heal. Unfortunately, he has to 633 00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:24.799 play Pete Sampress in nine hours, so he goes out. 634 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:28.160 He plays the match, but he doesn't make any sort 635 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:31.079 of bold recovery like Sampress probably would have, and he 636 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:34.480 just loses in four sets. Up to that point, he 637 00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.160 had won twenty six matches in a row and then 638 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.920 lost in the finals to Sampress, and this sends him 639 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:44.920 into a big, deep depression that we've covered previously. 640 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.160 Yeah, it's funny too, because I don't know, man, I 641 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:48.839 know you're depressed. But it was an injury. 642 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.279 Yeah, that's what I don't get about it. 643 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.359 I would also have come out of that being like, yeah, 644 00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:56.319 if I wasn't injured, I would have fucking beat that guy. 645 00:33:56.640 --> 00:34:00.039 Yeah, but also we are not them. And also he 646 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.680 hadn't made several million dollars less than he may have 647 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.000 otherwise in that scenario, so I could see it. 648 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:06.319 Yeah, that's true. 649 00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:11.079 So yeah, we've already talked about the dark period that 650 00:34:11.239 --> 00:34:15.519 starts around nineteen ninety seven when andre. 651 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:18.360 Agassi, among other things, starts. 652 00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:23.199 Smoking a little meth dabbles, gets caught, and in true 653 00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:26.440 rich white guy fashion, is able to talk himself out 654 00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:29.599 of it with almost no consequences at all. 655 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:33.280 Actually no consequences. He had to answer a letter basically, 656 00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:37.400 that's all the consequences, and he drops to one hundred 657 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:41.119 and forty first in the world, and interestingly enough, on 658 00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:43.960 his way back up, he beats Pete Sampress, at a 659 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:47.840 tournament in San Jose and says it seemed like Sampress 660 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:51.039 almost wanted him to win because he felt like he 661 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:56.480 wanted that rivalry back, and that rivalry just didn't exist 662 00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:01.719 when Andrea Agassy was playing challenger tournament and ranked outside 663 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:03.000 the top one hundred. 664 00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:06.440 It's like in a sports rivalry when one team when 665 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.880 Green Bay in Chicago had a rivalry when Green Bay 666 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:11.800 was winning championships in Chicago was struggling to win three 667 00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:14.880 games a season. Yeah, we're just like, I know, you 668 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:18.360 guys think this is a rivalry, but go bother the Vikings. 669 00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:22.599 Yeah, okay, it's like that some seasons that I know. Yeah, 670 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.159 Red Sox Yankees, for God's sake. 671 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:28.559 Yeah, the Bears Packers' rivalry is shockingly close in terms 672 00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:32.719 of wins and losses, given that it spans about five 673 00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:38.159 thousand years. So Andre Agassi, once he starts making that rise, 674 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:41.800 We've mentioned it before, he's actually more successful in that 675 00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:44.960 second half of his career even than in the first 676 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.840 half before that big fall. So now he and Sampress 677 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.239 are going back and forth as world number one. He 678 00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.480 loses to Sampress at Wimbledon in ninety nine after winning 679 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:01.199 fourteen straight Grand Slam matches. He probably didn't even notice 680 00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:03.159 that because that's the point where he and his team 681 00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:06.960 were more fixated on how he can get him some 682 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:08.440 STEFFI graf. 683 00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:10.559 I got it. Some things have to take a back seat. 684 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:13.920 That's the major he was trying to win at that point. Man, 685 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:16.840 You know what I'm saying. Hell yeah. 686 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:19.840 Sampress also beats him at the US Open in two 687 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.079 thousand and two. But this is according to Andrea Agassy, 688 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:26.679 a thing happens there that tells me almost everything I 689 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:29.360 need to know about Pete Sampress. Again, this is all 690 00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.360 according to Andrea Agassy. It's in his book. It's called Open. 691 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:35.519 I cannot recommend it enough. What

he claims is that 692 00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:38.480 while he and Brad Gilbert were out to dinner one 693 00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:40.800 night in New York the week of the US Open, 694 00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:43.119 they saw Pete Sampress out having dinner. 695 00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.599 Also wouldn't be funny if he just wasn't eating. He 696 00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:48.960 was just sitting at a table. Yeah, it's like staring forward. 697 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:51.000 We don't know. 698 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:55.000 They chat him up a little bit, and then he leaves, 699 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.280 and Andrea Agassy notices that he tips the valet when 700 00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:01.480 he drives off and he asked Brad Gilbert, what do 701 00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:04.880 you think he tipped that valet? And Brad Gilbert immediately 702 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:08.199 is like five dollars at best, and andre AGAs he's like, what, 703 00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:11.760 come on, he's rich, he's gonna tip better than that. 704 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:14.559 And they go back and forth and they finally decide, 705 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:16.280 you know what, fuck it, We're just gonna go ask 706 00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:19.760 this valet, hey, what did Pete Sampress tip you? And 707 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.760 the valet doesn't want to tell them at first. He's 708 00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:25.719 looking down at the ground and he's finally like, he 709 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:28.920 tipped me a dollar and told me to make sure 710 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:32.559 the dollar goes to whoever actually pulled the car around. 711 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:38.239 Mm, that's Pete Sampress doesn't deserve Bridget Wilson. No, people 712 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:41.519 who are shitty in situations like that, that's such a 713 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:42.239 red flag. 714 00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:42.719 Yeah. 715 00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:45.719 And it's also it's not like a hardship was thrust 716 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:48.239 upon him and that's why he got shitty. There are 717 00:37:48.239 --> 00:37:50.960 no hardships. You're Pete Sampres, you're married to Bridget Wilson. 718 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:53.920 Yeah, someone brought you your car as instructed at the 719 00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:57.280 restaurant you decided to go to. Yeah, your fuck face, 720 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:02.679 fuck you fucking raided belt khaki wearing motherfucker. 721 00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:06.760 Yeah, I really hated that. I hated I read that 722 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:09.559 story those bad times. And then he goes out and 723 00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:12.840 beats Andre Agassy at the US Open, and Andrea Agassy 724 00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:16.000 says the look he gave him at the end of 725 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.880 that match was here's a dollar kid, thanks for bringing 726 00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:22.599 my car around. Like he just had no respect for 727 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.519 Agacy either, And it seems like he maybe

did not 728 00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:27.360 have that much respect. 729 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:29.719 Yeah, that's like when you're friends of the person and 730 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.440 you find out later that they called you annoying. You're 731 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:35.119 just like, then, why and why are we doing this? 732 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:39.360 Yeah, it does seem like Samprass Agassy was a one 733 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:41.599 sided thing in every way. 734 00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:47.840 It was what Sam Prass hole there, it is, That's 735 00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:48.760 what that guy was. 736 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.360 But yeah, seems like a one sided relationship in every 737 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:56.400 way in the amount of tournaments each of them won, 738 00:38:56.920 --> 00:39:00.000 and also in terms of how they viewed each other. 739 00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:04.559 It seems like Agassy was like almost in awe of 740 00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:05.679 Pete Sampress. 741 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:08.360 I'll add Agassy. 742 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:11.880 At several points he's doing he has wig strife, he's 743 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:15.280 doing meth, he's bringing parrots to interviews. I do also 744 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.599 understand why Sampress, Like, this guy's a bit of a clown, 745 00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:18.800 oh for sure. 746 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:23.440 And it would also have to be frustrating to be 747 00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:26.920 putting in all that work and then here's this guy 748 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.599 doing meth and drinking a fifth of vodka a day. 749 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:34.840 And you're just like barely better than him, just a 750 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:37.159 little bit. Yeah, that's the other part too, And it's 751 00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:39.079 like I have disdain for you. It's like, well I 752 00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:42.960 beat you sometimes. Yeah, you don't dominate me. Wish you 753 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:48.159 would a right too, busy fighting sonya blade for the 754 00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:49.320 soul of Earth realm. 755 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:54.719 So yeah, and fortunately for the rest of andre Agassi's career, 756 00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:57.760 Pete Sampress retired in two thousand and three. 757 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:01.480 Once the towers were down, he lost his interest. Yeah. Yeah, 758 00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:03.159 well they had to get out of the country because 759 00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:06.400 he was not people were asking questions. Also, he just 760 00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:09.880 probably wanted to just bang his wife. Yeah, it seems 761 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:12.719 like he had done enough. You know. He seems like 762 00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:14.480 the kind of guy that would live in the split 763 00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:16.880 level ranch in Idaho. Yeah. 764 00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:20.119 He has John Mellencamp energy, oh for sure. Or you're 765 00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:22.039 just like, where

do you want to live? He's like Kansas, 766 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:23.679 but really, where do you want to live? 767 00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:24.960 Fine, Wyoming. 768 00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:27.880 Yeah, yeah, I don't know what Pete Samprass is up 769 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:29.960 to now. I'm sure he's doing fine. Just hanging out 770 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.280 with Bridget Wilson. 771 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:34.280 Doing ten That's a bummer, are they? Yeah, I don't know. 772 00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:36.719 You think, what's Pete Samprass going to do to rock 773 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:37.119 the boat? 774 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:40.119 He is notoriously private at the age of fifty two. 775 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:43.559 First off, some of that hair has decided it no 776 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.159 longer wants to be a part of his life. But unfortunately, 777 00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:50.559 recently we just found out that Bridget is battling ovarian cancer. 778 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:52.599 Oh I don't like that. That sucks. 779 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:57.000 But yeah, there's been some tennis legend is completely unrecognizable. 780 00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.639 He looks like an Internet billionaire or something. Now, yeah, 781 00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:04.920 that old Adam. Do yourself a favor. Google Pete Sampress 782 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:06.360 now and take a look at what he looks like. 783 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:10.119 It's an interesting it's an interesting look. As of a 784 00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:13.400 couple months ago. He is unrecognizable. But because he had 785 00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.719 such thick, dark hair to see him. 786 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:20.599 Like unrecognizable, his hair thinning, that's not he's fifty two. 787 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:23.199 That happens. I thought he was gonna have a fucking 788 00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:26.599 unibomber beard or something that would have been cool. Yeah, 789 00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:28.320 I mean his hair is a little thinner, but you 790 00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:31.000 know sure, I'm looking at the one with him holding 791 00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:35.400 the coffees. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that one. 792 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:38.400 His If anything, I'm concerned by his eyebrows. 793 00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:41.920 It was a side profile one that was that kind 794 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:44.880 of threw me back. He looks like a bit actor. Ncis. 795 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:48.960 Also he's not He hasn't shaved, and that's jarring. I've 796 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:50.960 never seen Pete Sampress with facial hair. 797 00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:53.440 Give me five minutes, you'll see him with facial hair, 798 00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:56.239 Like what because he grows hair very quickly. Is when 799 00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:58.960 I was getting oh ye, like, imagine seeing Trump with 800 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.719 a beard. That would be what. Ted Cruz came out 801 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:05.360 with a beard and everyone's like, no, no. 802 00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.760 No, I'm still saying no to Eminem's beard and he's 803 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:08.760 not given a show. 804 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:12.199 Yeah, yeah, that's an uncomfortable beard. So yeah. 805 00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:15.960 Pete Sampras retired in two thousand and three. Andre Agassy 806 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:19.599 sticks it out until two thousand and six. He still 807 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:23.639 has a lot more success, not massive success, but he 808 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.000 sticks it out until two thousand and six. And one 809 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.079 of the things that ends up doing andre Agassy in 810 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:35.320 is injuries back injuries, especially he struggled with back injuries 811 00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:41.440 his entire career, and the book open the entire introduction. 812 00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:47.360 It starts, I believe, the night before his last match 813 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:51.639 at the two thousand and six US Open, and it's 814 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:57.079 a really detailed, kind of minute by minute description of 815 00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:59.920 everything he had to do to get ready to play 816 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.400 tennis at that point in his career, and it reads 817 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:06.440 like a fucking horror movie. 818 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:08.639 It is in tense. 819 00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:12.159 He takes multiple showers and one of them is just 820 00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:13.559 to get to where he can move. 821 00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:16.639 Kind of. It's a tough read. 822 00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:20.599 And he's got kids by that point, and there's this 823 00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:24.639 very sweet passage where he talks about how his kids 824 00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:27.159 want nothing more in life than for him to lose, 825 00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.760 because that means they get to go hang out in 826 00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:31.760 the city and go do fun party shit. 827 00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:34.960 And meanwhile he's like, I'll die if I lose. I can't. 828 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:39.079 Yeah, yeah, because he's only thirty six, Yeah in two 829 00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:41.440 thousand and six, but also thirty six and tennis is 830 00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:44.480 that's like sixty in regular people age. 831 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:45.239 Yeah. 832 00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:50.599 Even with the advances that they're making in sports medicine 833 00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:54.159 today where you're seeing players play deeper into their thirties, 834 00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:58.400 into their early forties in all sorts of sports, including tennis. 835 00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:03.159 Novak Djokovic is pushing I think he's closer to thirty 836 00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:07.920 six now. But yeah, even Djokovic and Nadal are kind 837 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:11.199 of breaking down at this point, and they're both yeah, 838 00:44:11.559 -->

00:44:12.280 five thirty six. 839 00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:16.400 That competitiveness. I always feel like I'm in okay shape. 840 00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:18.960 But then you're like, yeah, but you can't compare to 841 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.079 a twenty four year old doing the same thing. 842 00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.039 It's insane. That's like when George Foreman came back and 843 00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:27.480 they're like, can this old piece of shit do it? 844 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:28.519 Thirty eight? 845 00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:32.320 Yeah, that's how they're talking about Kevin Durant and Lebron James. 846 00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:35.280 Now they're like, yeah, rules have also been changed to 847 00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:36.599 protect those people too. 848 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:37.159 Right. 849 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:41.159 Weirdly, as much as they're trying, baseball doesn't seem to 850 00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:44.000 have the same benefits when you look at some people 851 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.480 were playing baseball into their forties and now that happens 852 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:48.000 so rarely. 853 00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:51.599 It's Miguel Cabrera, Yeah, pretty much it so yeah. 854 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.199 I think that wraps up our season. I do wish 855 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:57.119 people if you found this interesting, go read his book. 856 00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:00.800 It is really well done. It's worth reading just for 857 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.599 that intro. That intro about him getting ready for his 858 00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:10.760 last match is harrowing. It is an intense read and 859 00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:13.960 I can't recommend it enough. The only reason we're not 860 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.440 covering it is the only way we could really do 861 00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:19.760 it justice, as if I just read it and yeah, 862 00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:25.639 read it verbatim. So if everybody, yeah, so if nothing 863 00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.199 else read that first part of the book. 864 00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.559 It's pretty great and we'll be back with another season. 865 00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:34.880 We will, if we'll tell you what too. If Adam 866 00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.119 and I you we usually we bandy about all the 867 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.000 things we talk about and plans and. 868 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:42.280 Stuff, but we're not not open to suggestions. If there's 869 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:46.079 anybody that you think we should cover sport, just don't 870 00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:47.400 be like Michael Jordan. 871 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:51.559 Yeah, don't be like Woods. Yeah no, no, we don't 872 00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:52.000 want to do that. 873 00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:54.639 Somebody that there hasn't been a million things about, and 874 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:56.239 somebody that we could do a whole season and they'll 875 00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:58.320 be like Mark the Bird, Fidrich be like that's a 876 00:45:58.360 --> 00:45:59.119 one episode. 877 00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:02.199 Yeah, yeah, there also needs to be enough information out 878 00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:03.280 there about. 879 00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:06.039 Yeah, give us a sweet spot maybe and try to 880 00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:08.320 do a sport that we've It isn't just. 881 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:11.679 Hey, here's this Sporting News article that's very detailed. 882 00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:15.480 That's not enough, that's not six episodes. But we are 883 00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:19.039 definitely put in the comments. Let us know what you think. 884 00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:22.000 We're taking into consideration. We'll take it into consider you can't. 885 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:24.360 There's no way we're gonna kick you off from making 886 00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:28.800 we might. Yeah, we're pretty tough. Yeah, push the envelope. 887 00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:29.480 See what happens. 888 00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:31.519 Yeah, see what happened. You know what? Tests us? Fucking 889 00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:34.440 test us? Yeah, try it, just try us one time. 890 00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:36.920 So yeah, I think that's it. We did it. 891 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:39.440 This feels like the appropriate time to plug some stuff, 892 00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:40.719 and I would plug Adam Todd. 893 00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:44.320 Brown dot substack dot com. Go read my writings. Jeff, 894 00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:45.239 what do you got to plug? 895 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:47.840 I got Patreon dot com slash Jeff May for early 896 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:51.320 access to uncertained episodes of Jeff Has Cool Friends plus 897 00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:54.119 bonus content, as well as the exclusive ug Fine with 898 00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:56.880 Kim Crawl and early access to Nerd with Drey Alvarez, 899 00:46:57.199 --> 00:46:59.039 so you can check that out. Nerd and Jeff Has 900 00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:01.199 Cool Friends you can get for free later, but you 901 00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:04.519 can do it early. I open trading cards sometimes with 902 00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:05.840 Adam on you don't even. 903 00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:08.199 Like sports cards. 904 00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:10.679 I also do I must break you every Wednesday afternoon 905 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:14.639 at one o'clock Pacific, and et cetera. 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